Terra Luna Sol Monumenta

Avi Solomon
Learning for Life
Published in
1 min readMar 31, 2020

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What a transit of Earth and Moon across the Sun would look like

Composite of SDO footage of Venus and Mercury solar transits as approximate stand-ins for Earth and Moon:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3941
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4461

Sound of the Sun:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13011

Music:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YYX3WSW/

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
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/453/2/1684/1144327

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)
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1983JBAA...93..120M

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