NASA的韦伯望远镜在木星的卫星木卫二表面发现了碳源
天文学家利用美国宇航局詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜的数据，在木卫二冰层表面的特定区域发现了二氧化碳。
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阿尔忒弥斯2号任务的宇航员完成月球任务的发射演练
The Artemis II crew and teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program successfully completed on Sept. 20, the first in a series of integrated ground system tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the upcoming mission around the Moon. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space A...
轻触贝努
2023年9月21日 Tagging Bennu Image Credit: OSIRIS-REx, University of Arizona, NASA, Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio Explanation: The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s arm reached out and touched asteroid 101955 Bennu on October 20, 2020, after a careful approach to the small, near-Earth asteroid’s boulder-strewn surface. Dubbed a Touch-And-Go (TAG) sam...
战略传播经理伊西德罗·雷纳
“We were a two-person shop doing comprehensive communications for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. I won a whole ton of awards there alongside an amazing mentor and boss named Sandra Arnold. That’s why I stayed so long — because we were such a great team. That experience was very foundational to my federal career. “I found out in October 2013 th...
在遥远的系外行星发现了甲烷
2023年9月20日 Methane Discovered on Distant Exoplanet Illustration Credit: Ahmad Jabakenji (ASU Lebanon, North Star Space Art); Data: NASA, ESA, CSA, JWST Explanation: Where else might life exist? One of humanity’s great outstanding questions, locating planets where extrasolar life might survive took a step forward in 2019 with the discovery of a signific...
NASA的月球相机拼接图揭示了月球南极
沙克尔顿撞击坑的新拼接图 影像来源：Mosaic created by LROC (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) and ShadowCam teams with images provided by NASA/KARI/ASU 沙克尔顿撞击坑的一幅新拼接图展示了两台月球轨道相机的力量，它们协同工作，揭示了月球南极地区前所未有的细节。 这幅拼接图是由2009年开始运行的月球侦查轨道器照相机（LROC）和2022年8月发射的韩国航空宇宙研究院（KARI）达努里（Danuri）航天器上搭载的NASA仪器ShadowCam拍摄的图像拼接而成。ShadowCam是由马林太空科学系统和亚利桑那州立大学开发。 LROC可以捕捉到月球表面的详细图像，但拍摄月球上从未受到阳光直射的阴影部分的能力有...
HH 211: 形成中恒星的喷流
2023年9月19日 HH 211: Jets from a Forming Star Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Webb; Processing: Tom Ray (DIAS Dublin) Explanation: Do stars always create jets as they form? No one is sure. As a gas cloud gravitationally contracts, it forms a disk that can spin too fast to continue contracting into a protostar. Theorists hypothesize that this spin can be reduced by exp...
NASA的好奇号抵达火星山脊，那里有水留下的碎片堆积
盖迪斯山脊（Gediz Vallis Ridge）被认为是强大的古代泥石流的遗迹，是探测器科学团队长期寻找的目的地。
红色精灵与绿树
2023年9月18日 The Red Sprite and the Tree Credit & Copyright: Maxime Villaeys Explanation: The sprite and tree could hardly be more different. To start, the red sprite is an unusual form of lightning, while the tree is a common plant. The sprite is far away — high in Earth’s atmosphere, while the tree is nearby — only about a football fie...
阿尔忒弥斯着陆和回收主任莉莉安娜·比利亚雷亚尔
“From an early age, I wanted to be an astronaut. I remember going to Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center when I was 7 on a family trip, and we got to see the rockets in the Rocket Garden and learn all about the Moon landings. I had no idea that humanity had ever been in space, much less landed on the Moon. When my family moved from Colombia to the United Sta...