推出到发射台

推出到发射台

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility on Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 will be Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The mission, currently targeted for launch at 1:20 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 3, will serve as an end-to-end test of the system’s capabilities. Image Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani 2021年8月2日星期一，在佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角空军基地进行轨道飞行测试-2任务之前，联合发射联盟的宇宙神Ⅴ号运载火箭搭载着波音公司的CST-100 Starliner航天器从垂直整合设施中推出到在41号航天发射场的发射台上。波音公司的轨道飞行测试-2将是Starliner的第二次无人驾驶飞行测试，并将与国际空间站对接，这是NASA商业宇航员计划的一部分。这项任务目前定于美国东部时间8月3日星期二下午1点20分发射，将作为对系统能力的端到端测试。 图片来源: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

乘坐月球车在月球上兜风

乘坐月球车在月球上兜风

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Apollo 15 Commander David Scott drives the lunar roving vehicle on the surface of the Moon, the first time the rover was used. Apollo 15 launched on July 26 and landed on the lunar surface 50 years ago on July 30, 1971. During the mission, Scott and lunar module pilot James Irwin collected 170 pounds of lunar material during their more than 18 hours on the Moon’s surface. Image Credit: NASA 阿波罗15号指挥官大卫·斯科特在月球表面驾驶着月球车，这是月球车第一次被使用。 阿波罗15号于7月26日发射，并于50年前的1971年7月30日登陆月球表面。在执行任务期间，斯科特和登月舱飞行员詹姆斯·欧文在月球表面停留了18个多小时，收集了170磅的月球物质。 图片来源: NASA

凝视太阳

凝视太阳

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On April 29, 2015, NuSTAR, Hinode, and Solar Dynamics Observatory all stared at our Sun. Flaring, active regions of our Sun are highlighted in this image combining observations from Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR (shown in blue); low-energy X-rays from Japan’s Hinode spacecraft are green; and extreme ultraviolet light from Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, are yellow and red. This NuSTAR image is a mosaic made from combining smaller images. The active regions across the Sun’s surface contain material heated to several millions of degrees. The blue-white areas showing the NuSTAR data pinpoint the most energetic spots. During the observations, microflares went off, which are smaller versions of the larger flares that also erupt from the sun’s surface. The microflares rapidly release energy and…

附近星系的强光和暗影

附近星系的强光和暗影

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From 156 million light-years away the heart of active galaxy IC 5063 reveals a mixture of bright rays and dark shadows coming from the blazing core, home of a supermassive black hole. In this Hubble Space Telescope image, astronomers suggest that a ring of dusty material surrounding the black hole may be casting its shadow into space. According to this scenario, the interplay of light and shadow may occur when light blasted by the monster black hole strikes the dust ring, which is buried deep inside the core. Light streams through gaps in the ring, creating the brilliant cone-shaped rays. However, denser patches in the disk block some of the light, casting long, dark shadows through the galaxy. This phenomenon is similar to sunlight piercing…

宇宙神Ⅴ号运载火箭上的Starliner

宇宙神Ⅴ号运载火箭上的Starliner

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The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is secured atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on July 17, 2021. Starliner is slated to launch on July 30 on Atlas V for Boeing’s second Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The spacecraft rolled out from Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center earlier in the day. Image Credit: Boeing/John Grant 2021年7月17日，在佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角航天部队空间站41号航天发射场的垂直集成设施，波音CST-100星际飞船被固定在联合发射联盟宇宙神Ⅴ号运载火箭上。Starliner将于7月30日在宇宙神Ⅴ号运载火箭发射，用于波音公司的第二次轨道飞行测试((OFT-2)。当天早些时候，这艘飞船从位于美国宇航局肯尼迪航天中心的波音商业宇航员和货物处理设施出发。 图片来源:波音/约翰·格兰特

庆祝阿波罗15号登月50周年

庆祝阿波罗15号登月50周年

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This image from May 11, 1971, is a high angle view showing the Apollo 15 spacecraft on the way from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Pad A, Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center. The Saturn V stack and its mobile launch tower are atop a huge crawler-transporter. Apollo 15 was the fourth scheduled crewed lunar landing mission and was commanded by David Scott. Al Worden served as command module pilot and Jim Irwin as lunar module pilot. The mission successfully launched on July 26, 1971. Image Credit: NASA 这张摄于1971年5月11日的高角度照片显示了阿波罗15号宇宙飞船从飞行器装配大楼到肯尼迪航天中心39号发射中心A发射台的途中。土星5号发射塔和它的移动发射塔位于一个巨大的履带运输机之上。阿波罗15号是第四次预定的载人登月任务，由大卫·斯科特指挥。阿尔·沃登担任指挥舱飞行员，吉姆·欧文担任登月舱飞行员。 该任务于1971年7月26日成功发射。 图片来源:美国国家航空航天局

小小的（火星）直升飞机

小小的（火星）直升飞机

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Ingenuity, the helicopter that arrived on the Red Planet on the Mars Perseverance rover, has made nine flights on Mars. Ingenuity’s historic achievement is the first powered helicopter flight on a terrestrial body other than Earth. According to Håvard F. Grip, Ingenuity Chief Pilot, and Ken Williford, Perseverance Deputy Project Scientist, Flight 9, which occurred in July 2021, was unlike the flights that came before it. It broke our records for flight duration and cruise speed, and it nearly quadrupled the distance flown between two airfields. But what really set the flight apart was the terrain that Ingenuity had to negotiate during its 2 minutes and 46 seconds in the air – an area called “Séítah” that would be difficult to traverse with a ground…

波音公司的CST-100 Starliner固定在宇宙神Ⅴ号运载火箭上

波音公司的CST-100 Starliner固定在宇宙神Ⅴ号运载火箭上

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Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is secured atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on July 17, 2021. On July 30, Starliner is slated to launch on an Atlas V for Boeing’s second Orbital Flight Test for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Image Credit: United Launch Alliance 2021年7月17日，在佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角太空部队基地的41号航天发射复合体的垂直集成设施上，波音公司的CST-100 Starliner航天器被固定在联合发射联盟的宇宙神Ⅴ号运载火箭上。7月30日，Starliner将搭载宇宙神Ⅴ号运载火箭升空，进行波音公司为NASA的商业宇航员计划进行的第二次轨道飞行测试。 图片来源：联合发射联盟

距离月球24万英里

距离月球24万英里

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On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on another celestial body when they landed on Earth’s only natural satellite. The Apollo 11 crew traveled nearly a quarter million miles to get to the Moon. While Armstrong and Aldrin explored the lunar surface and collected samples, command module pilot Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Columbia module that would propel the crew back to planet Earth. This image is of lunar sample #10020, one of many brought back for research. Image Credit: NASA 1969年7月20日，指挥官尼尔·阿姆斯特朗（Neil Armstrong）和登月舱飞行员巴兹·奥尔德林（Buzz Aldrin）在地球唯一的天然卫星上着陆，成为第一批踏上另一个天体的人类。 阿波罗11号机组人员飞行了近25万英里到达月球。当阿姆斯特朗和奥尔德林探索月球表面并收集样本时，指挥舱飞行员迈克尔·柯林斯（Michael Collins）留在月球轨道上的哥伦比亚舱中，该指挥舱将把宇航员送回地球。 这张图片是10020号月球样本，是带回进行研究的众多样本之一。 图片来源：NASA

猎户座星云内部一瞥

猎户座星云内部一瞥

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This dramatic image from January 2006 offers a peek inside a cavern of roiling dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming. The image, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope, represents the sharpest view ever taken of this region until this time, called the Orion Nebula. More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image. Some of them have never been seen in visible light. These stars reside in a dramatic dust-and-gas landscape of plateaus, mountains, and valleys that are reminiscent of the Grand Canyon. The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars that are shaping the nebula to the pillars of dense gas that may be the…