把望远镜举高至空中

把望远镜举高至空中

Carried by a balloon the size of a football stadium, ASTHROS will use a telescope to observe wavelengths of light that aren’t visible from the ground. Work has begun on ASTHROS (short for Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths), a new mission that will carry a cutting-edge 8.4-foot telescope high into the stratosphere on a balloon that is tentatively planned to launch in December 2023 from Antarctica. This illustration shows a high-altitude balloon ascending into the upper atmosphere. When fully inflated, these balloons are 400 feet (150 meters) wide, or about the size of a football stadium, and reach an altitude of 130,000 feet (24.6 miles or 40 kilometers). Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab/Michael Lentz 由一个足球场大小的气球携带,ASTHROS将使用望远镜来观察从地面看不到的波长的光。ASTHROS(用于在亚毫米波长下进行高光谱分辨率观测的天体物理平流层望远镜的简称)的工作已经开始。这是一个新的任务,它将把一个8.4英尺高的尖端望远镜通过一个气球带到平流层,这个气球暂定于2023年12月从南极洲发射。 这张插图显示了一个上升到高层大气的高空气球。充足气后,这些气球宽400英尺(150米),相当于一个足球场的大小,高度可达130,000英尺(24.6英里或40公里)。…

大黄蜂号上的阿波罗11号

大黄蜂号上的阿波罗11号

This image, taken on July 24, 1969, shows the Apollo 11 command module and the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) photographed aboard the USS Hornet, prime recovery ship for the historic first lunar landing mission. The Apollo 11 crew, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, are already in the MQF. The Apollo 11 crew splashed down at 12:49 p.m. EDT, July 24, 1969, about 834 miles southwest of Hawaii and only 14 miles from the USS Hornet. While Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the lunar module Eagle to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the Moon, command module pilot Collins remained with the command and service module Columbia in lunar orbit. Image Credit: NASA 这张照片拍摄于1969年7月24日,照片上的是位于美国大黄蜂号航空母舰上的阿波罗11号指令舱和移动隔离设施(MQF),这艘美国“大黄蜂”号是美国历史上首次登月任务的主要回收船。阿波罗11号的宇航员尼尔·阿姆斯特朗、迈克尔·柯林斯和巴兹·奥尔德林已经进入MQF。1969年7月24日美国东部时间下午12点49分,阿波罗11号的机组人员在夏威夷西南834英里处溅落,距离美国大黄蜂号航空母舰仅14英里。阿姆斯特朗和奥尔德林登上月球舱鹰探索月球的宁静海地区时,指挥舱飞行员柯林斯留在月球轨道上的哥伦比亚指挥和服务舱。 影像来源:NASA

NEOWISE彗星横越孤松湖上方的天空

NEOWISE彗星横越孤松湖上方的天空

Faintly in the distance, Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE (Comet NEOWISE) streaked across the sky above the tree line of Lone Pine Lake, located on the Mount Whitney Trail in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. The comet next returns in 6,800 years. Visiting from the distant parts of our Solar System, NEOWISE is characterized by a glowing tail and is visible during the month of July. The photo was taken at 4:59 am on July 14, 2020. Want to see it for yourself? Learn how. Image Credit: NASA/Lauren Hughes 在远处,C / 2020 F3 NEOWISE(彗星NEOWISE)彗星微微划过天空,位于加利福尼亚州内华达山脉东部惠特尼山步道上的孤松湖林线上方。这颗彗星将在6800年后返回地球。 NEOWISE彗星从我们太阳系的遥远地方来访,它的特征是尾巴发光,在七月可见。这张照片摄于2020年7月14日上午4:59。 想亲眼看看吗?学习如何去做。 影像来源:NASA/Lauren Hughes

开发将人类送入火星的技术

开发将人类送入火星的技术

NASA is developing technologies to send humans to the Red Planet. The agency is working on an inflatable heat shield that allows the large surface area to take up less space in a rocket than a rigid one. The technology could land spacecraft on any planet with an atmosphere. It would expand and inflate before it enters the Martian atmosphere to land cargo and astronauts safely. In this image, engineers prepare for the flexible heat shield installation on the inflatable structure. The view is from bottom side, and the heat shield is on top. The technology isn’t ready for the Red Planet just yet. An upcoming flight test of a 6-meter diameter (about 20 feet) prototype will demonstrate how the aeroshell performs as it enters…

阿波罗11号:从月球返回

阿波罗11号:从月球返回

On July 21, 1969, command and service module pilot Michael Collins photographed this close-up view of the docking target on the Apollo 11 Lunar Module from the Command Module. The image was captured during docking in lunar orbit as Mission Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin returned from the lunar surface. Collins had remained in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin explored the lunar surface. Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21 hours, 36 minutes on the Moon’s surface. During the mission’s spacewalk, Aldrin deployed the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package, or EASEP, experiments, and Armstrong and Aldrin gathered and verbally reported on the lunar surface samples. The entire spacewalk lasted more than two-and-a-half hours, ending at 111 hours, 39 minutes into the mission….

我们为全人类的和平而来

我们为全人类的和平而来

On July 20, 1969, two American astronauts made history by landing on the surface of another celestial body. This image is a close-up view of the plaque, which Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin left on the Moon in commemoration of the historic lunar landing mission. The plaque was attached to the ladder on the landing gear strut on the descent stage of the Apollo 11 lunar module. The plaque was covered with a thin sheet of stainless steel during flight. Astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the command and service modules in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin explored the Moon. Image Credit: NASA 1969年7月20日,两名美国宇航员登上另一个天体表面,创造了历史。 这张照片是阿波罗11号指挥官尼尔·阿姆斯特朗和登月舱飞行员巴兹·奥尔德林为纪念历史性的登月任务而留在月球上的牌匾的特写。这块牌匾附着在阿波罗11号登月舱下降段的起落架支柱上的梯子上。在飞行过程中,这块匾被薄钢板覆盖着。当阿姆斯特朗和奥尔德林探索月球时,指挥舱驾驶员、宇航员迈克尔·柯林斯仍在绕月轨道上的指挥舱和服务舱工作。 影像来源:NASA

阿波罗-联盟号测试项目:轨道伙伴关系诞生

阿波罗-联盟号测试项目:轨道伙伴关系诞生

On July 17, 1975, something momentous happened: two Cold War rivals met in space. When their respective spacecraft rendezvoused and docked, a new era of cooperative ventures in space began. For more than two decades, American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts have been regularly living and working together in Earth orbit, first in the Shuttle-Mir program, and now on the International Space Station. But, before the two Cold War-rivals first met in orbit in 1975, such a partnership seemed unlikely. Since Sputnik bleeped into orbit in 1957, there had been a Space Race, with the U.S. and then-Soviet Union driven more by competition than cooperation. When President John F. Kennedy called for a crewed Moon landing in 1961, he spoke of “battle that is now going…

阿波罗11号载入史册

阿波罗11号载入史册

At 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission launched via a Saturn V rocket with Commander Neil Armstrong, command module pilot Michael Collins and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex Pad 39A. In a little more than eight years after the flights of Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard, followed quickly by President John F. Kennedy’s challenge to put a man on the Moon before the decade is out, Apollo 11 launched on its historic mission. Learn more about Apollo 11. Image Credit: NASA 1969年7月16日美国东部时间上午9点32分,阿波罗11号任务通过土星5号火箭发射升空,搭载着来自肯尼迪航天中心39A发射台的指挥官尼尔·阿姆斯特朗、指挥舱驾驶员迈克尔·柯林斯和登月舱驾驶员巴兹·奥尔德林。 在尤里加加林(Yuri Gagarin)和艾伦谢泼德(Alan Shepard)太空飞行8年多后,紧接着约翰·F·肯尼迪(John F. Kennedy)总统提出在十年内把人送上月球的挑战,阿波罗11号(Apollo 11)开始了它的历史性使命。 了解更多关于阿波罗11号的信息。 图片来源:NASA

从高空俯瞰地球之美

从高空俯瞰地球之美

The crew snapped this starry nighttime shot of Rio de Janeiro and surrounding cities on the Brazilian coast, as the International Space Station orbited above São Paolo. Whhile the crew observes Earth from more than 200 miles above the planet, astronaut Bob Behnken and Commander Chris Cassidy also are concentrating on the final set of power upgrade spacewalks on the station with their next spacewalk slated for Thursday, July 16. Image Credit: NASA 当国际空间站绕圣保罗飞行时,机组人员拍摄了里约热内卢和巴西沿岸周边城市的星空夜景。当宇航员们在距离地球200多英里的高空观察地球时,宇航员鲍勃·本肯和指挥官克里斯·卡西迪也在集中精力进行最后的能源升级太空行走,他们的下一次太空行走定于7月16日星期四进行。 影像来源:NASA

毅力号火星车与阿特拉斯5号火箭配对

毅力号火星车与阿特拉斯5号火箭配对

In this image, NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover waits to be lifted onto its Atlas V launch vehicle at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 7, 2020. The Mars 2020 mission is part of a larger program that includes missions to the Moon as a way to prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. Charged with returning astronauts to the Moon by 2024, NASA will establish a sustained human presence on and around the Moon by 2028 through the Artemis lunar exploration plans. Image Credit: NASA/KSC 在这张照片中,2020年7月7日,美国宇航局的火星2020毅力号火星车在佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角空军基地等待被送入阿特拉斯5号运载火箭。 “火星2020”任务是更大计划的一部分,该计划包括为人类探索火星做准备的探月任务。负责在2024年让宇航员重返月球的NASA将通过阿耳忒弥斯(Artemis)探月计划,到2028年,他将通过阿耳忒弥斯月球探测计划在月球及其周围建立持久的人类存在。 影像来源:NASA/KSC