Mercury Transit as seen by TRACE


Below are movies of the Mercury transit on November 15, 1999 taken in 171 Angstroms and 1600 Angstroms. The fuzzy images in the 171 movies were produced when TRACE passed through a radiation belt.


171 Angstroms

Click here for a larger version of the quicktime movie

Click here for a smaller version of the quicktime movie

If you are working on a PC or make that prefers .mov files, click here for the smaller version.




1600 Angstroms

For an mpeg version of the Mercury transit in 1600 click here.

For a quicktime version of the Mercury transit in 1600 click here.


  • Optical movies from Mees are linked on their home page.
  • Movies of the mercury transit from EIT can be found here.

Dawn C. Myers