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Mercury transit 15/11/1999
author: Nasa/Novapix
reference: a-cnj10-00002
Image Size 300 DPI: 12 * 8 cm
This false-color satellite TRACE image was made in ultraviolet light and tend to show the hot gas just above the Sun's visible surface. Mercury's disk is silhouetted against the seething plasma as it follows a trajectory near the edge of the Sun.
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