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Composite of SDO images of Venus and Mercury solar transits as approximate stand-ins for Earth and Moon:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a0039...DOHMIcomposite/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a0044...6x4096_1x1_30p/

See:
Simultaneous HARPS and HARPS-N Observations of the Earth Transit of 2014 as Seen from Jupiter: Detection of an Inverse Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect
Molaro, P.; Monaco, L.; Barbieri, M.; Zaggia, S.; Lovis, C.
The Messenger, vol. 161, p. 20-23 , September 2015
https://www.eso.org/sci/publications/messen...no161-20-23.pdf
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Video version of the hypothetical transit using SDO footage of Venus and Mercury solar transits as approximate stand-ins for Earth and Moon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aafWkE0PyIY
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