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5 June 2012
Most of USA To See Venus Transit at Sunset!
It begins at 22:09 GMT today. That is 6:09 PM EDT. Here in Maryland and over much of North America, the transit will be underway at sunset. You can look at the sun at sunset safely for a few seconds! I plan on seeing the sunset over Chesapeake Bay..if the weather holds! NASA has a good video below on why this is so historical and an important scientific event.
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.