May 18, 2009

Transit duration: 0.8s Transit bandwidth on Earth: 5.6 km. Altitude: 600 km. Speed: 7 km/s (25000 km/h). Length of Atlantis : 35m, length of Hubble : 13m. via

posted by polychrome at 10:27AM UTC [trackback] (4 comments total)

Nice photos.

"Only image ever taken of a transit of a space shuttle (Atlantis) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in front of the Sun"

posted by flurker at 11:50AM UTC on May 18, 2009

Nice!

posted by BlueHorse at 01:06PM UTC on May 18, 2009

This is pretty freakin' cool, especially given that the equipment used to take the (spectacular) photos is fairly humble by today's standards.

Gave me goosebumps.

posted by kinnakeet at 02:59PM UTC on May 18, 2009

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

posted by tellurian at 12:20AM UTC on May 19, 2009

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