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Once in a lifetime: the Venus transit 2004

3 June 2004

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The movement of Venus across the Sun on 8 June 2004. The times shown are valid for The Netherlands and Belgium. The top of the image corresponds to North.

Credits: Kennislink

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This is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet image of the planet Venus, taken on 24 January 1995, when Venus was at a distance of 113.6 million kilometres from the Earth.

Credits: L. Esposito (University of Colorado, Boulder), and NASA

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