作者: Gotthew

观星指南(2024年2月)

二月份的天空会发生什么?金星和火星是一对,木星和月球是对方的情人,观测M81,又名“波德星系”。

天鹅座货运飞船飞往国际空间站

In this image from Jan. 30, 2024, an uncrewed Cygnus cargo spacecraft launches atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, starting its journey to the International Space Station. Launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Cygnus carries 8,200 pounds of science investigations and cargo to support dozens of research experiments. This is Northrop Grumman’s 20th...

地球的大气辉光

This high exposure photograph revealed Earth’s atmospheric glow against the backdrop of a starry sky in this image taken from the International Space Station on Jan. 21, 2024. At the time, the orbital lab was 258 miles above the Pacific Ocean northeast of Papua New Guinea. The Nauka science module and Prichal docking module are visible at left. Since the spa...

在火星上待了三年之后,NASA机智号直升机任务结束

影像来源:NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA创造历史的机智号火星直升机在超出预期、比计划多进行了数十次飞行后,结束了在这颗红色星球上的任务。虽然这架直升机保持直立状态,并与地面控制人员保持着联系,但本周传回的1月18日的飞行图像显示,它的一个或多个旋翼叶片在着陆过程中受损,无法再飞行。 机智号最初的设计是作为一项技术演示,在30天内进行多达五次实验测试飞行,第一架在另一个世界上的飞机在火星表面运行了近三年,进行了72次飞行,飞行距离是计划的14倍多,总飞行时间超过2小时。 “在另一个星球上的第一架飞机,机智号的历史性旅程已经结束。”NASA局长比尔·纳尔逊说。“这架非凡的直升机飞得比我们想象的更高更远,帮助NASA做了我们最擅长的事情——把不可能变成可能。通过像机智号这样的任务,NASA正在为未来在太阳...

庆祝NASA勇气号和机遇号探测器登陆火星

NASA’s twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, stand on the Martian landscape in this poster created to commemorate their 20th landing anniversary. The rovers landed in January 2004, on opposite sides of the planet in locales that scientists suspected had been affected by liquid water in the past. Their main scientific objective was to search for a range of roc...

公理3号任务发射到国际空间站

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. Axiom Space’s Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) is the third all-private astronaut mission to the space station, sending crew members Commander Michael López-Alegría, Pilot Walter Villadei of Italy, Mission Specialist Alper...

NASA的OSIRIS-REx研究团队展示了剩余的小行星样本

A top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed, revealing the remainder of the asteroid sample inside. Photo: NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold The astromaterials curation team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston has completed the disassembly of the OSIRIS-REx sampler head to re...