TRANSIT of VENUS was 5-6 June 2012; the next is December 2117
June 11, 2012
Our SESDA Sun Earth Day team joined with NASA Edge to broadcast the event live from Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Thanks in part to our Heliophysics system administrators and our HECN network groups, their website drew about 150 million hits without a single crash; likely more people watched the NASA Edge video live feed than watched Prince William’s wedding.
We are still compiling numbers from museums, classrooms, amateur astronomers, and ABC, CBS, CNN, USA Today, and many other news organizations that reported on our program or (like ABC and CBS) carried us live on the day of the transit NASA web servers carrying the event – set up and maintained by SESDA staff – recorded an astonishing 100 million hits!
Our team was elated with the worldwide response. Background on the Venus Transit is available from the Sun Earth Day site: http://venustransit.nasa.gov/2012/transit/ and the highlights video from the hours of live feed are available from NASA Edge site: http://www.ustream.tv/nasaedge.
