Mercury transit seen by Solar Orbiter

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Mercury can be seen silhouetted against some towering gaseous structures in the Sun’s outer atmosphere in this movie taken by the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument on 3 January 2023.

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ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team
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