MOON TRANSIT OF THE SUN

NASA launched two satellites last year called STEREO A & STEREO B. The purpose of these satellites is to take stereo pictures of the sun to aid in scientific studies of our mother star. NASA recently published a photo taken by Stereo B of the moon transiting the sun. On earth we see solar eclipses when that happens, because of the unique relationship of apparent size of the two bodies as seen from the Earth. From Stereo B's position in space, the moon is less than 1/4 the apparent size of the sun. As a result we now have a unique photo of the two, in a perspective that man has never seen before.

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