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Episode Details: When Mercury Crosses the Sun
When Mercury Crosses the Sun
Series: The Sky at Night
Season: Season 17
Episode Number: 12
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Duration: N/A min
On the morning of 10 November the planet Mercury will pass in transit across the face of the Sun. Patrick Moore tells observers what they can expect to see, and he looks forward to the launching in 1974 of an American spacecraft which will fly past Mercury and send back the first close-up pictures.