Speck-tacular Mercury

Our nearest star seen against its closest neighbor.

A tiny speck, A giant world. Your point of view.

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Mercury transits the sun in 2019, for the last time before it will do so again in 13 years in 2032.

If the sun was the size of a basketball, Mercury would be a pin head size speck floating in the darkness 33 feet away. The earth would be a seasame seed sized object at 90 feet.

Spec-tacular indeed.