ISS transit across the solar disc, 2017. Montage of four images of the International Space Station (ISS, dark object) crossing (transiting) the disc of the Sun. These images were taken at 17:36 on 6 June 2017, from Corroios, Portugal. The ISS orbits the Earth every 90 minutes at an altitude of around 400 kilometres, travelling at 7.8 kilometres per second. Here, the ISS took around a second to (transit) cross the disc of the Sun. The distances of the Moon and Sun from the Earth are 400, 000 kilometres and 150 million kilometres respectively. | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / MIGUEL CLARO |
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