阿波罗11号：阿姆斯特朗的自拍照

2023年7月22日

Apollo 11: Armstrong’s Lunar Selfie
Image Credit: NASA, Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong; Processing: Michael Ranger

Explanation: A photograph of Buzz Aldrin standing on the Moon taken by Neil Armstrong, was digitally reversed to create this lunar selfie. Captured in July 1969 following the Apollo 11 moon landing, Armstrong’s original photograph recorded not only the magnificent desolation of an unfamiliar world, but Armstrong himself reflected in Aldrin’s curved visor. In the unwrapped image, the spherical distortion of the reflection in Aldrin’s helmet has been reversed. The transformed view features Armstrong himself from Aldrin’s perspective. Since Armstrong took the original picture, today the image represents a fifty-four year old lunar selfie. Aldrin’s visor reflection in the original image appears here on the left. Bright (but distorted) planet Earth hangs in the lunar sky above Armstrong’s figure, toward the upper right. A foil-wrapped leg of the Eagle lander and Aldrin’s long shadow stretching across the lunar surface are prominently visible. In 2024 NASA’s Artemis II mission will return humans to the Moon.

Tomorrow’s picture: unexpected clock

阿波罗11号：阿姆斯特朗的自拍照
影像提供: NASA, Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong; 影像处理: Michael Ranger

说明: 一张由尼尔·阿姆斯特朗所拍摄、主题为站在月表的巴兹·奥尔德林之照片，经过数码反转以制作出这幅月球自拍照。阿姆斯特朗的原始照片摄于1969年7月，时值阿波罗11号登月之后；照片不仅记录了荒芜壮观的陌生世界，还记录了映在奥尔德林弯曲遮阳面罩上的阿姆斯壮之身影。在这幅经过重置反转的影像里，映在奥尔德林面罩上的球面变形影像经过反向与拉直，并以奥尔德林的视角来呈现阿姆斯特朗。因为这张照片是阿姆斯特朗所拍摄的，所以上面这幅影像等同于是一张高龄54年的月表自拍照。而在上面这幅影像左侧的嵌图，则是有奥尔德林面罩映影的原始照片。此外，明亮但扭曲的地球，悬在阿姆斯特朗右上方的月球天空中。影像里，老鹰号着陆器包覆镀金箔的脚架及奥尔德林投射在月表的颀长身影格外吸睛。在2024年，NASA的阿尔忒弥斯计划（Artemis II）将让人类重返月球。