Once in a lifetime: the Venus transit 2004   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.   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. Enter Venus Express...     Release date: 4 August 2005