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The June 2012 Transit of Venus was the last to occur in our lifetimes. It was also a great show of science-savvy, literate social web in action. There was end-to-end live streaming coverage of the transit of Venus from observatories worldwide.

Special kudos to [|Slooh Space Camera] with Slooh host Patrick Paolucci along with Bob Berman who [|shared their Google Hangout via YouTube].

Reflections
[|The Day the Flickerverse watched Venus] [|Transit of Venus and the Hubble]

Local Transit Times
[|Transit of Venus]

Livestreaming
http://sunearthday.gsfc.nasa.gov/webcasts/nasaedge http://sunearthday.gsfc.nasa.gov/webcasts/mtwilson http://www.ustream.tv/nasaedge http://www.ccssc.org/transit2012.html http://events.slooh.com

Facebook
[|https://www.facebook.com/groups/108400462513165]

Flickr Groups
[] (great example of citizen science ... or simply motivating the public!)

Storify
http://storify.com/thinkgeek/venus-transit-2012

Wikipedia
[|Transit_of_Venus,_2012]

Recommended Listening
[|Dark Sky] - With less than a month to the Transit of Venus, find out about the hot planet at the [|Adam Art Gallery's] Dark Sky show [|The Transit of Venus Lectures] [|Capturing Venus] [|The philosophy of astronomy] [|Observing the Transit of Venus]

Elsewhere on the Web
[|Your guide to the transit of Venus - ABC] [] [|http://www.transitofvenus.org] [] [|http://rekindlingvenus.com] [] [|The Transit of Venus from Sydney Observatory] http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/06/13/japanese_space_probe_akatsuki_is_now_sending_back_images_and_data_from_venus.html?utm_content=buffer62f2d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Tahiti
http://travelworldnews.com/2012/03/10/air-tahiti-nui-offers-special-transit-of-venus-package-best-viewing-of-once-in-a-lifetime-eclipse [|http://www.travelquesttours.com/tours/tahiti-transit-of-venus/itinerary/#it-2]

[] http://www.frommers.com/destinations/destinationmap.cfm?destID=84&a_id=22289
 * Point Venus**

Wiki
astronomy captain cook tahiti

Photos
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Videos
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10 Need-to-Know Things About Venus: > || ||  ||  || > ||  ||  ||  || > ||  || Magellan: Mapping Venus ||  || > || ||  ||  || || ||
 * 1) Venus is only a little smaller than Earth.
 * 2) Venus is the second closest planet to the sun at a distance of about 108 million km (67 million miles) or 0.72 AU.
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- http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Venus
 * 1) One day on Venus lasts as long as 243 Earth days (the time it takes for Venus to rotate or spin once). Venus makes a complete orbit around the sun (a year in Venusian time) in 225 Earth days.
 * 2) Venus is a rocky planet, also known as a terrestrial planet. Venus' solid surface is a cratered and volcanic landscape.
 * 3) Venus' thick and toxic atmosphere is made up mostly of carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen (N2), with clouds of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) droplets.
 * 4) Venus has no moons.
 * 5) There are no rings around Venus.
 * 6) More than 40 spacecraft have explored Venus. The [|Magellan] mission in the early 1990s mapped 98 percent of the planet's surface.
 * 7) No evidence for life has been found on Venus. The planet's extreme high temperatures of almost 480 degrees Celsius (900 degrees Fahrenheit) make it seem an unlikely place for for life as we know it.
 * 8) Venus spins backwards (retrograde rotation) when compared to the other planets. This means that the sun rises in the west and sets in the east on Venus