The journey, which astronomers refer to as a "transit," began with what looked to be a small, black dot on the edge of the sun at 7:12am EDT.

If you missed the dance of Mercury over the Sun, you need not wait till 2032 which is the next time it will be seen in India again. This is a dramatic video of the smallest planet zipping across the Sun taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory - a satellite perched almost 35,000 kilometres above the Earth and having the best view of the fiery Sun. India will soon launch a similar satellite called Aditya.