A Nasa image captured on June 5, 2012, one of the rarest predictable solar events: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun.
This hemispheric view of Venus, as revealed by more than a decade of radar investigations culminating in the 1990-1994 Magellan mission, is centred on the North Pole. Nasa's Magellan spacecraft took pictures of more than 98 per cent of Venus. All photos: Nasa
The June 5, 2012 transit of Venus, the small dot in the upper right of the disk, was captured by a Johnson Space Centre photographer in Rocket Park, Texas.
A portion of Alpha Regio is displayed in this three-dimensional perspective view of the surface of Venus from Nasa's Magellan spacecraft. In 1963, Alpha Regio was the first feature on Venus to be identified from an Earth-based radar.
Sif Mons is displayed in this computer-simulated view of Venus obtained by Nasa's Magellan spacecraft.
This crater in the Navka region of Venus was mapped by Nasa's Magellan in September 1990 during orbits 459 and 460. It has the terraced walls, flat radar-dark floor and central peak that are characteristic of craters classified as complex.
A Nasa image captured on June 5, 2012, one of the rarest predictable solar events: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun.
This hemispheric view of Venus, as revealed by more than a decade of radar investigations culminating in the 1990-1994 Magellan mission, is centred on the North Pole. Nasa's Magellan spacecraft took pictures of more than 98 per cent of Venus. All photos: Nasa
The June 5, 2012 transit of Venus, the small dot in the upper right of the disk, was captured by a Johnson Space Centre photographer in Rocket Park, Texas.
A portion of Alpha Regio is displayed in this three-dimensional perspective view of the surface of Venus from Nasa's Magellan spacecraft. In 1963, Alpha Regio was the first feature on Venus to be identified from an Earth-based radar.
Sif Mons is displayed in this computer-simulated view of Venus obtained by Nasa's Magellan spacecraft.
This crater in the Navka region of Venus was mapped by Nasa's Magellan in September 1990 during orbits 459 and 460. It has the terraced walls, flat radar-dark floor and central peak that are characteristic of craters classified as complex.
A Nasa image captured on June 5, 2012, one of the rarest predictable solar events: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun.