What if we sent a spacecraft to film Earth and Moon transiting across the Sun? Such a mission would constitute another inspiring "Apollo moment" for humanity.
I imagined the view by compositing real NASA SDO footage of the Venus and Mercury solar transits as approximate stand-ins for Earth and Moon:
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Music by Max Richter:
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Scientific References:
The Earth transiting the Sun as seen from Jupiter's moons: detection of an inverse Rossiter-McLaughlin effect produced by the opposition surge of the icy Europa
P. Molaro, M. Barbieri, L. Monaco, S. Zaggia, C. Lovis
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 453, Issue 2, 21 October 2015, Pages 1684-1691
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Transits of Earth as Seen from Mars
Meeus, J., Goffin, E.
Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.93, no.3, p.120-123 (1983)
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