Sentence examples for solar transit from inspiring English sources

The International Space Station (ISS) was captured between two massive sunspots, the AR 12674 and AR 12673, during its solar transit.

In a solar transit an object passes directly between the Sun and Earth and is silhouetted briefly against the Sun's disk.

The last solar transit of Venus occurred in 2012.

A solar transit of Venus is an extremely rare event, and the last solar transit of the planet before 2004 was in 1882.

This solar transit was a rare opportunity considering the lack of information on the atmosphere between 65 and 85 km.

The most recent solar transit was in 2012, however, the next one will not occur until 2117.

Important early telescopic observations of Venus were conducted in the 1700s during the planet's solar transits (see eclipse: Transits of Mercury and Venus).

Although astronomers detect faraway planets by finding solar transits, they measure and confirm a planet's status by analyzing the slight wobble in a star's motion that occurs when the planet orbits.

We describe the initial tests of the antenna pattern by measuring the solar transits during the epoch (June July 2004) that the Sun passed very close to the observatory's zenith.

Aside from the attention it receives around one of its rare solar transits, Venus hardly makes headlines.

As the technique to analyse light to discover information about a planet's atmosphere only first showed results in 2001, this was the first opportunity to gain conclusive results in this way on the atmosphere of Venus since observation of solar transits began.