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 15 years ago

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 15 years ago by flurker
Nice!
posted 15 years ago by BlueHorse
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 15 years ago by kinnakeet
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
posted 15 years ago by tellurian

Monkeyfilter

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May 18, 2009