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  2. Passage de Vénus - Wikipedia

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    Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. [1] They were purportedly taken in Japan by the French astronomer Jules Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's 'photographic revolver'. [2] [3] [4] It is the oldest "film" listed on both IMDb ...

  3. IAU definition of planet - Wikipedia

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    [1] The eight planets are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. [2] An IAU process will be established to assign borderline objects into either dwarf planet and other categories. [3] These currently include most of the Solar System asteroids, most Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), comets, and other small bodies.

  4. Astronomical transit - Wikipedia

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    On 21 December 2012, the Cassini–Huygens probe, in orbit around Saturn, observed the planet Venus transiting the Sun. [3] On 3 June 2014, the Mars rover Curiosity observed the planet Mercury transiting the Sun, marking the first time a planetary transit has been observed from a celestial body besides Earth.

  5. Fact check: Image falsely shows Mercury, Venus and Saturn ...

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    A Facebook post claims Mercury, Venus and Saturn aligned with the pyramids in Giza, Egypt. That purported phenomenon is made up. Fact check: Image falsely shows Mercury, Venus and Saturn aligned ...

  6. NASA spacecraft captures beautiful photos of Saturn ... - AOL

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  7. Venera - Wikipedia

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    Venera-D is a proposed mission to Venus that would include a highly capable orbiter and a lander. From the standpoint of total mass delivered to Venus, the best launch opportunities occur in 2026 and 2031; [10] however, as of March 2021, Venera-D is planned for launch no earlier than November 2029. [11]

  8. Perelandra - Wikipedia

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    Perelandra (also titled Voyage to Venus in a later edition published by Pan Books) is the second book in the Space Trilogy of C. S. Lewis, set on the planet of Perelandra, or Venus. It was first published in 1943.

  9. Declassified photos show the US's final preparations for the ...

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    On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima -- and newly revealed photos shed light on the preparations for the attack.