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2024年1月25日 Jyväskylä in the Sky Image Credit & Copyright: Harri Kiiskinen Explanation: You might not immediately recognize this street map of a neighborhood in Jyväskylä, Finland, planet Earth. But that’s probably because the map was projected into the night sky and captured with an allsky camera on January 16. The temperature recorded on that nort...
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...
2024年1月24日 Earth and Moon from Beyond Image Credit: NASA, Artemis I; Processing: Andy Saunders Explanation: What do the Earth and Moon look like from beyond the Moon? Although frequently photographed together, the familiar duo was captured with this unusual perspective in late 2022 by the robotic Orion spacecraft of NASA‘s Artemis I mission as it loope...
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...
2024年1月23日 Deep Nebulas: From Seagull to California Image Credit & Copyright: Alistair Symon Explanation: How well do you know the night sky? OK, but how well can you identify famous sky objects in a very deep image? Either way, here is a test: see if you can find some well-known night-sky icons in a deep image filled with faint nebulosity. This image c...
美国邮政总局发行了两枚新的优先邮票，庆祝NASA的詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜，这是有史以来最大、最强大、最复杂的太空望远镜。1月22日发行的邮票展示了韦伯自2022年开始科学任务以来拍摄的宇宙图像。
In this image from May 22, 2023, a NASA intern uses an augmented reality headset to test out heads-up display technology being developed for future Artemis missions. This technology was created as part of the NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students, or SUITS, design challenge in which college students from across the country help design user ...
2024年1月22日 Shadows of Mountain and Moon Image Credit & Copyright: Enzo Massa Micon Explanation: Can the Moon and a mountain really cast similar shadows? Yes, but the division between light and dark does not have to be aligned. Pictured, a quarter moon was captured above the mountain Grivola in Italy in early October of 2022. The Sun is to the right of th...
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...
2024年1月21日 The Upper Michigan Blizzard of 1938 Image Credit: Bill Brinkman; Courtesy: Paula Rocco Explanation: Yes, but can your blizzard do this? In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan‘s Storm of the Century in 1938, some snow drifts reached the level of utility poles. Nearly a meter of new and unexpected snow fell over two days in a storm that started 86...