Editing Astronomical transit (section)

=== Mutual planetary transits ===
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In rare cases, one planet can pass in front of another. If the nearer planet appears smaller than the more distant one, the event is called a ''mutual planetary transit''.<gallery>
File:2012 Transit of Venus from SF.jpg|Transit of Venus as seen from Earth, 2012
File:PIA02879 - A New Year for Jupiter and Io.jpg|[[Io (moon)|Io]] transits across [[Jupiter]] as seen by ''[[Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]]'' spacecraft
File:PIA18389-MarsCuriosityRover-MercuryTransitsSun-20140603.gif|Mercury transiting the Sun, seen from [[Curiosity (rover)|''Curiosity'']] rover on Mars (3 June 2014).
File:Dark side of the Moon.png|The Moon transiting in front of Earth, seen by Deep Space Climate Observatory on 4 August 2015.
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