APOD 4.8 Station and Shuttle Transit the Sun

In this image, there are two small dark spots on the sun. However, they aren't sun spots. They are actually the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Atlantis transiting the Sun. The bigger object is the ISS and the smaller one is Atlantis. The ISS and Space Shuttles are often seen streaking across the sky together during the night, but it is much rarer to see images of the two objects on the disk of the Sun. The two objects are orbiting about 350 kilometers above the Earth's surface. This image was taken about 50 minutes before the shuttle docked with the space station and this mission should be Atlantis' last mission.