Look at little Mercury transiting in front of the Sun! This scene wasn't visible from Earth, but NASA's STEREO A spacecraft caught it on April 7.
(The video is greatly sped up; the actual event took several hours.)
https://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ #space #science #nature #nasa
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