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Waveform Audio File Format  |  2003-08-14  |  891.4 KB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  20 seconds
Transcription: In Mercury's sky the Sun sometimes performs a backward loop. If this happens at sunrise, as seen here, you have the curious spectacle of a double dawn. This strange phenomenon is a result of Mercury's slow rotation period and its motion around the Sun along a stretched out elliptical path.