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
Isn’t this just an image of the Venus transit in 2012? The sunspots seem suspiciously to match what they were then. Also, saying it’s an Earth transit doesn’t tell much unless you specify from where. But an Earth transit from seen from Mars would look something like this, I guess.
Hattix on
You’ve given the Moon a 90 degree inclined orbit. I’m sure nobody on Earth will notice.
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I imagined the view by compositing SDO images of the Venus & Mercury Solar transits as approximate stand-ins for Earth & Moon:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3941
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4461
*Scientific Reference:*
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
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/453/2/1684/1144327
Isn’t this just an image of the Venus transit in 2012? The sunspots seem suspiciously to match what they were then. Also, saying it’s an Earth transit doesn’t tell much unless you specify from where. But an Earth transit from seen from Mars would look something like this, I guess.
You’ve given the Moon a 90 degree inclined orbit. I’m sure nobody on Earth will notice.
There are examples in this wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Earth_from_Mars .
They are almost as rare as Venus Transits from earth.
The apparent size of the Earth and the Moon on the face of the Sun will vary depending on how far the observer is away fron the Sun.