Thursday, June 7, 2012

Transit Of Venus

did you miss the once-in-our-lifetime transit of Venus?  we were lucky enough to see it!  this rare occurence isn't going to happen for another 105 years.  to put that into perspective, if you had a child today, and your child had a child in 25 years, your grandchild will be 80 the next time Venus makes another transit.  CRAZY!!!

These images really put our world into perspective since Venus is an Earth-sized planet. We're just a tiny speck. I took some screenshots from NASA's website, one of a very excited scientist, and a sweet full-size picture from space.com.







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