前往南极的GUSTO
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility C-130 aircraft, shown in this image from Oct. 28, 2023, delivered the agency’s Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) payload to McMurdo Station, Antarctica. This was the first mission to Antarctica for the plane.
The GUSTO mission, launching aboard a football-stadium-sized, zero-pressure scientific balloon in December 2023, will fly an Ultralong-Duration Balloon (ULDB) carrying a telescope with carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen emission line detectors. This unique combination of data will supply the spectral and spatial resolution information needed for the mission team to untangle the complexities of the cosmic material found between stars, and map out large sections of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy and the nearby galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud.
See more photos from the C-130’s voyage to Antarctica.
Image Credit: NASA/Scott Battaion
在这张摄于2023年10月28日的图片中，NASA的瓦勒普斯飞行设施C-130飞机将该机构的银河系/银河系外ULDB光谱太赫兹天文台（GUSTO）有效载荷运送到南极洲的麦克默多站。这是该飞机第一次执行南极任务。
GUSTO任务将于2023年12月在一个足球场大小的零压力科学气球上发射，它将搭载一个超长持续时间气球（ULDB），该气球携带一架装有碳、氧和氮发射线探测器的望远镜。这种独特的数据组合将为任务团队提供所需的光谱和太空分辨率信息，以解开恒星之间发现的宇宙物质的复杂性，并绘制出我们银河系和附近被称为大麦哲伦星云的星系的大部分平面图。
图片来源: NASA/Scott battalion