溅落！NASA的猎户座飞船在完成历史性月球任务后返回地球
NASA的猎户座飞船在完成了一项破纪录的任务后，于太平洋时间周日上午9点40分在下加利福尼亚州西部的太平洋溅落，在绕月轨道上飞行了140多万英里，安全返回地球，完成了阿尔忒弥斯一号的飞行测试。
按月归档： 12 月 2022
木卫一的真实色彩
2022年12月11日 Io in True Color Image Credit: NASA, JPL, Galileo Project Explanation: The strangest moon in the Solar System is bright yellow. The featured picture, an attempt to show how Io would appear in the “true colors” perceptible to the average human eye, was taken in 1999 July by the Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003....
美国号与静海
2022年12月10日 America and the Sea of Serenity Gene Cernan, Apollo 17, NASA; Anaglyph by Patrick Vantuyne Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this stereo view of another world. Fifty years ago the scene was recorded by Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene Cernan on December 11, 1972, one orbit before descending to land on the Moon. The stereo...
返回地球前，猎户座凝视着月亮
On flight day 20 of the Artemis I mission, Dec. 5, 2022, Orion captured the Moon on the day of return powered flyby, the final major engine maneuver of the flight test. The burn, which used the spacecraft’s main engine on the European-built service module, lasted 3 minutes, 27 seconds, and changed the velocity of the spacecraft by about 655 mph (961 feet per...
月亮临边上方的火星
2022年12月9日 Mars Rises above the Lunar Limb Image Credit & Copyright: Tom Glenn Explanation: On the night of December 7 Mars wandered near the Full Moon. In fact the Red Planet was occulted, passing behind the Moon, when viewed from locations across Europe and North America. About an hour after disappearing behind the lunar disk Mars reappears in this st...
NASA的詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜显示了几颗恒星“搅动”了南环星云
来自NASA詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜的第一批数据显示，至少有两颗，甚至可能有三颗看不见的恒星，塑造了南环星云的形成了南环星云的椭圆形、曲线形。此外，通过将韦伯的红外图像与欧洲航天局（ESA）盖亚天文台的现有数据配对，研究人员第一次能够在形成星云之前精确地确定中心恒星的质量。由澳大利亚悉尼麦考瑞大学的奥索拉·德·马尔科领导的近70名研究人员组成的团队分析了韦伯对这颗垂死恒星的10次高度详细的曝光，得出了这些结果。
先锋10号飞越木星
In this illustration by Rick Giudice from August 1973, the Pioneer 10 spacecraft passes by the gas giant planet Jupiter. The spacecraft’s primary goal was to explore Jupiter, its satellites, its magnetic field, and trapped radiation belts. Pioneer 10 was the first satellite to pass through an asteroid belt and the first spacecraft to obtain detailed im...
猎户座与风暴洋
2022年12月8日 Orion and the Ocean of Storms Image Credit: NASA, Artemis 1 Explanation: A camera on board the uncrewed Orion spacecraft captured this view on December 5 as Orion approached its return powered flyby of the Moon. Below one of Orion’s extended solar arrays lies dark, smooth, terrain along the western edge of the Oceanus Procellarum. Prominent ...
NASA的毅力号火星车获得了火星上的泥土
该任务的前两个风化层样本（破碎的岩石和灰尘）可以帮助科学家更好地了解这颗红色星球，并帮助工程师为未来的任务做准备。
50年前，阿波罗17号宇航员拍摄到了标志性的蓝色大理石
这张经典的地球照片拍摄于1972年12月7日，由最后一次阿波罗任务阿波罗17号的宇航员拍摄，当时他们正在执行登月任务，前往月球。阿波罗的轨道第一次使拍摄南极冰盖成为可能，如图所示的是南半球厚厚的云层。