Astronomy educator, Shelley Witte, from the National Air and Space Museum's Public Observatory captured this transit of the International Space Station across the Sun on Sunday, July 17 at 8:08 am. At that time, the space shuttle Atlantis was still docked with the ISS during its final visit to the space station. Each transit frame of the original video were individually processed. The length of the actual transit was less than 1.5 seconds.
Video Duration:
20 sec
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