Mercury's transit will help Solar Orbiter scientist to calibrate the spacecraft's instruments.
SPICE may have got the most revealing view of the sun thanks to Mercury's transit, however. This instrument is designed to split light from the sun into constituent colors, and by doing this it can identify atoms in the different layers of the star as they exist at different temperatures.
"It is a certified black object traveling through your field of view," Solar Orbiter Project Scientist at ESA, Daniel Müller, said in the statement."That means that any brightness recorded by the instrument within Mercury's disc as it transits must be caused by the way that instrument transmits light, a quantity called the point spread function."
The more accurately the point spread function is known, the better it can be accounted for by astronomers and removed from data. That means by studying this transit, the quality of the Solar Orbiter data can be further improved.
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