What a transit of Earth and Moon across the Sun would look like
What a transit of Earth and Moon across the Sun would look like

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What if we sent a spacecraft to film Earth and Moon transiting across the Sun? Such a mission would constitute another inspiring "Apollo moment" for humanity. I imagined the view by compositing real NASA SDO footage of the Venus and Mercury solar transits as approximate stand-ins for Earth and Moon.

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SDO footage of the Venus Solar transit

SDO footage of the Mercury Solar transit

2M1 by Brian Eno

Sound of the Sun

'Transit Of Earth' by Arthur C. Clarke read by himself (1975)

The Earth transiting the Sun as seen from Jupiter’s moons: detection of an inverse Rossiter–McLaughlin effect produced by the opposition surge of the icy Europa

Transits of Earth as Seen from Mars

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Category
art - conceptual / installationmusictechnology
Release Date
29 April 2025
Catalog number
TLSM001

Terra Luna Sol Monumenta

Created by
Avi Solomon

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What a transit of Earth and Moon across the Sun would look like

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