Astronomy Picture of the Day -- A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea

NASA ^ | June 13, 2012 | (see photo credit)

[SunkenCiv]

[Credit & Copyright: Jens Hackmann]

[SkyDancer]

Venus being larger than Earth really shows how large our sun is.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Mashood]

“Venus being larger than Earth...”

Really?

[KoRn]

Awesome!!!! The boats kinda spoil the pic, but it’s still very good. Without boats, that would without a doubt be Desktop wallpaper material.

[Still Thinking]

Venus being larger than Earth really shows how large our sun is.

Venus is very similar in size to Earth.

[SkyDancer]

I thought. You mean it isn’t ??? M,kay so Venus is a tad smaller but not by much.

[momtothree]

... as we discussed! Hugs, Mom

[SkyDancer]

Yep, ‘bout the same size. Got my facts a bit off so I guess I’ll go stand in the corner for a while.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

The Venus shadow almost looks like two circles superimposed on each other - anyone know why that is?

[SkyDancer]

Yep, ‘bout the same size. Got my facts a bit off so I guess I’ll go stand in the corner for a while.

[NormsRevenge]

Cool stuff, Maynard!

[Mashood]

Yeah.. Jupiter is the largest planet, and Earth is larger than Venus.

[SkyDancer]

Well as I wrote to several posters:

Yep, 'bout the same size. Got my facts a bit off so I guess I'll go stand in the corner for a while.

Think I'll go swallow some rhubarb or sumptin'

[Mashood]

“Yep, ‘bout the same size. Got my facts a bit off so I guess I’ll go stand in the corner for a while.”

Look at the bright side, you may have to stand in the corner but you don’t have to wear the cap./\

[SkyDancer]

What I have to learn here is to make sure of my facts before I post. I’ve been remiss on that several times to my embarrassment. But at least I use spell-check (me, not you).

[scripter]

Cool stuff, Maynard!

I haven't heard somebody say that since the 70s, when I was in high school. ;-)

[cripplecreek]

Just a couple of little space news items for the day.

New Horizons is now less than 9 AU from Pluto and the Curiosity rover is due to land on Mars in August.

It will be interesting to see if the can pull off the Curiosity landing since its the size of an SUV and will be lowered to the surface by crane under a rocket.

[cripplecreek]

I had friends with the last name of Maines so we used Maynard a lot.

[DallasDeb]

Sorry, Earth is slightly larger than Venus.