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Sequence of images from NASA's SDO of the Venus transit, merged together to show path of Venus across the Sun.

During a record-breaking test on June 8, 2012, engineers throttled the J-2X powerpack up and down several times to explore…

NASA Ames Research Center hosted a Transit of Venus event on June 5, 2012. The event was attended by more…

Atop a barge on Wednesday, June 6, 2012, the space shuttle Enterprise was towed on the Hudson River past the…

This ground-based transit image was taken at Kitt Peak in Tucson, Arizona. Kitt Peak, located high above the Sonoran Desert…

This image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows Venus as it nears the disk of the sun on June 5,…

JPL systems engineer Nagin Cox of the Mars Science Lab operations team: Mars is hard, MSL is harder.

Earth's planetary neighbor Venus passes across the face of the sun on June 5, 2012, seen here from the International…

Earth's planetary neighbor Venus passes across the face of the sun on June 5, 2012, seen here from the International…

This image of the 2012 Venus Transit was taken by NASA Astronaut Don Pettit from aboard the International Space Station…