Glenn Schneider, Leon Golub, and Jay Pasachoff's paper
from the American Astronomical Society's
Division of Planetary Science meeting in 2001

their final paper published in Icarus

2003 Mercury transit page at TRACE

2003 Mercury transit white-light video by TRACE (13 MB)

2003 Mercury transit page at the New Swedish Solar Telescope, La Palma

2003 Mercury transit page at SOHO

2003 Mercury transit page at GONG

2003 Mercury transit TRACE combination image

TRACE movie in an extreme-ultraviolet wavelength

TRACE movie in white light

A ground-based image by Philippe Jacquot of Annecy, France

movie from the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG)

composite image from the Udaipur, India, GONG site,
carefully co-registered so that the overall Sun stayed steady;
The solar rotation blurred out the sunspots

ground-based composite white-light image by D. Dierick

Rome Observatory

individual images

European Southern Observatory press release