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still to have seen even a part of a

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welcome back to nasa headquarters in

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a live web stream from norway of the

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venus transit the 2012 venus transit as

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back here live with myself al feinberg

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senior producer at nasa television

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my colleague dwayne brown office of

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communications and the head of our

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first we're going to before we

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we're going to turn it over to jason

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townsend our media maven social media

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maven who has some really cool stuff to

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show us jason yeah hi thanks al we're

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looking really good and uh also if

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pettit on twitter he's been doing a lot

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nasa or you track it on nasa google plus

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and there's over 900 of them so at this

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to continue joining the conversation

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using the hashtag poundvenustransit and

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to follow along on nasa on twitter nasa

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look for venus transit that's the group

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to look for and upload your own photos

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hi i'm gay hill at nasa's jet propulsion

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see it in my lifetime what are you gonna

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all right gay thanks so much

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great great great job there lots of fun

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web and and all of the folks that made

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strategic communications and really was

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and all our planets went around the sun

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that changed

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okay here's another live shot

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another beautiful shot you can see it's

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uh from norway now back to hawaii

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so venus

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is back now

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on its way

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making its journey around the sun

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and it'll be a while as we said another

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105.5 years between uh this one and the

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next one back to norway and and now

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we're seeing it leave in norway

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okay so we saw it yeah we saw it live

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from live from hawaii and it left

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we've lost that contact but here in

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norway uh what we do yeah just barely

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there and what we do from norway which

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is uh you know quite a quite a different

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latitude quite a different viewing

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still see it sitting on the disc just a

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little bit and it'll be there for a few

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more minutes yeah just about it'll

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probably be about a five minute

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different there okay difference there

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maybe a little less but on that order

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yeah so jim let's let's let's get back

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to um and you know we're saying goodbye

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to venus or the sun saying goodbye and

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uh you were talking about maws and

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curiosity and and exciting things with

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the year of the solar system uh can

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continue with that

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well the year of the solar system as i

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said is just made up of a series of

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fabulous events

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these are mission milestones but what

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what the scientists really want is the

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data back from those encounters and

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orbit insertions and the data has been

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flowing in like crazy and it's going to

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enable us to make all kinds of new

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discoveries and some of those have been

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started to come coming out already

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great well um i think we're about ready

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to

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say goodbye but we've got a couple we

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have uh another treat uh

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and jim you can give us the background

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of this all right let me give you the

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background of this this is a uh uh

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song it's been missing for what a

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hundred years about that uh in 1882

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many more people saw venus transit than

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ever before

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and it really uh uh got uh quite a bit

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of notoriety and the the top songwriter

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the will i am of that day was uh john

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philip sousa

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and he developed

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this song it's called the venus transit

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march

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and he developed it for a dedication of

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a statue of joseph henry that sits right

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in front of the castle on the mall now

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joseph henry was our first

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scientist of the nation and he led the

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smithsonian which we now have the air

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and space museum and and quite a

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wonderful set of museums associated with

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that great group so that's what we're

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going to go about that's what we're here

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hello i want to thank i want to thank

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jim green i would like to say we'll see

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you uh for the next venus transit but i

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probably would not be

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around for that um i want to thank

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everyone watching us

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jason townsend you rock man uh all you

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folks out there um it's been great with

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my colleague al um

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take it away my friend well i just a

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couple other folks uh our executive

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producer fred brown and anthony stewart

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tony stewart not the race car driver but

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our tony stewart who is uh put it all

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together in our crew uh shiva

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and eric and cliff and everybody else

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the uh john and ves everybody uh in uh

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said and master control everybody's

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really worked hard we've been here a

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long time and it's been a lot of fun so

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uh let's say goodbye uh thanks again jim

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and everybody else pleasure my pleasure

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enjoy the music ladies and gentlemen

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enjoy the images and always remember

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science never sleeps