Unusual view of the 2004 Venus transit

One of the more unusual views of the Venus transit, a commercial airliner is captured crossing the Sun's disc during the transit. A still image taken from a video of the event being filmed on 8 June 2004 by astronomers from the ESA Science Directorate at ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

These were D. Koschny, A. Piot, R. Francis, O. Witasse, K. Wirth, G. de Marchi, M. Baroni and B.H. Foing (Chief Scientist).