A astronomical Transit of Venus in front of the Sun occurs since Mars when Venus passes directly between the Sun and Mars, darkening a small portion of the solar disk from the point of view of an observer Martian.
Frequency
The Venus transits since Mars are more frequent than those of the Earth since this planet, like those of Venus since the Earth.The synodical Period Venus since Mars is 333,92 days; it can be calculated simply with the formula 1 (1/P - 1/Q) where P is the sidereal Period Mercury (224,701 days) and Q the sidereal period of Mars (686,960 10).
The slope of the Venus orbit compared to the ecliptic of Mars is 1,94°, less than the 3,39° of slope compared to the ecliptic of the Earth.
By empirical observation of the dates of transit, it seems that those occur according to distinct series; in each series, the transits are separated by 24 042,45 days (a little less than 65 years and 10 months). This period corresponds to 72 synodical periods Venus-March, that is to say 35 orbital periods of Mars and 107 orbital periods of Venus.
A series begins and finishes when Venus passes just to the North or the South of the Sun. When the distance between Venus and Mars at the time of their lower conjunction is sufficiently large (Venus then having an angular diameter of approximately 19"), a new series begins before the preceding one finished. In this case, two transists occur at only two synodical periods of distance (approximately 668 days), one of both on the northern part of the Sun, the other on its southern part. When Venus and Mars are closer with their conjunction (Venus having then an angular diameter of 23"), a series finishes before another takes over.
Observation
No human observer of course still could observe such a transit. The next one will be held on August 20th, 2030 and could potentially be observed by space probes, even of hypothetical astronauts.
List
In the following table, which lists a certain number of transits close to our time, the series beginning by has occur close to the ascending Nœud (compared to the plan of the ecliptic Martian) and when the angular Venus diameter is approximately 23 with 24". The series begin with D occur close to the Nœud descending when the angular diameter Venus is approximately 18 with 19". Da2 begins before the end from Da1, Db2 before that of Db1 and Db3 before that of Db2; on the other hand, Aa2 begins after the end from Aa1 and Ab2 after that from Ab1.
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