毅力火星车登陆火星

毅力火星车登陆火星

Members of the Perseverance Mars Rover team watch in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the first images arrive moments after the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls 2021年2月18日(星期四),毅力号火星车团队团队的成员在美国宇航局喷气推进实验室的任务控制中心观看探测器成功着陆火星后的第一批图像。毅力号火星任务的一个关键目标是天体生物学,包括寻找古代微生物生命的迹象。探测器将描述火星的地质和过去的气候,为人类探索这颗红色星球铺平道路,并将成为第一个收集和隐藏火星岩石和风化层的任务。 图片来源:NASA/Bill Ingalls

在工程和技术概览中展示毅力号火星车

在工程和技术概览中展示毅力号火星车

During the Mars Perseverance engineering and technology overview on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, chief engineer Adam Steltzner displays a rover wheel. The Perseverance Mars rover is due to land on the Red Planet on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls 2021年2月16日,周二,在美国宇航局喷气推进实验室,毅力号火星车工程和技术概览中,总工程师亚当·斯特尔茨纳展示了一个漫游者车轮。毅力号火星车将于2021年2月18日(周四)登陆火星。毅力号任务的一个关键目标是天体生物学,包括寻找古代微生物生命的迹象。探测器将描述火星的地质和过去的气候,为人类探索这颗红色星球铺平道路,并将成为第一个收集和隐藏火星岩石和风化层的任务。 图片来源:NASA/Bill Ingalls

帝国大厦为毅力号火星车亮灯

帝国大厦为毅力号火星车亮灯

In New York City on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, the Empire State Building is illuminated in red to celebrate this Thursday’s scheduled landing on Mars of NASA’s Perseverance rover. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith. Image Credit: NASA/Emma Howells 2021年2月16日(周二),纽约市帝国大厦被点亮成红色,庆祝美国宇航局(NASA)的毅力号(Perseverance)火星车计划于本周四登陆火星。毅力号火星任务的一个关键目标是天体生物学,包括寻找古代微生物生命的迹象。探测器将描述火星的地质和过去的气候,为人类探索这颗红色星球铺平道路,并将成为第一个收集和隐藏火星岩石和风化层的任务。 图片来源:NASA/Emma Howells

天体生物学家肯达·林奇利用地球上的类似物在火星上寻找生命

天体生物学家肯达·林奇利用地球上的类似物在火星上寻找生命

If we find life on the Red Planet, we’ll have astrobiologists like Dr. Kennda Lynch to thank. Lynch is an astrobiologist and geomicrobiologist studying life in extreme environments on Earth as models for characterizing habitable environments and searching for biosignatures on other planetary bodies in our solar system and elsewhere. Prior to obtaining her doctorate, she worked as a systems engineer for the International Space Station Program and as a research engineer for the Astromaterials and Exploration Science directorate, both at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Hence, she combines her engineering experience with her science training to work across multiple disciplines within the astrobiology community. Lynch’s current research focuses on studying life in hypersaline environments because recent data suggest the brines and salts are likely ubiquitous…

伯纳德·哈里斯:第一位非裔美国人太空行走者

伯纳德·哈里斯:第一位非裔美国人太空行走者

A physician, flight surgeon, and NASA astronaut, Bernard Harris became the first African American to perform a spacewalk in February 1995, during space shuttle Discovery’s STS-63 mission. This was a mission of firsts. It was also the first time a shuttle rendezvoused with the Russian Mir space station. View the Black History Month Image Gallery. Image Credit: NASA 伯纳德·哈里斯是一名医生、飞行外科医生和美国宇航局宇航员,1995年2月,在发现号航天飞机执行STS-63任务期间,他成为第一位进行太空行走的非裔美国人。这是一次史无前例的任务。这也是航天飞机第一次与俄罗斯和平号空间站对接。 查看黑人历史月图片画廊。 图片来源:美国国家航空航天局

水晶般清澈:观察空间站上的晶体生长

水晶般清澈:观察空间站上的晶体生长

There are more than 100,000 proteins in the human body. Every structure is different, and each one of them holds important information related to our health. Each protein has a unique and complicated structure that is closely related to its function. Therefore, revealing a protein’s structure leads to an understanding of its function. However, it is difficult to analyze protein structures here on Earth, where gravity interferes with optimal growth. Previous research has shown that microgravity produces high-quality protein crystals that can be analyzed to identify possible targets for drugs to treat disease. The Real-Time Protein Crystal Growth 2 study will produce high-quality protein crystals for up to eight proteins that will undergo detailed analysis back on Earth. Astronauts will observe the crystals, report on…

煤袋星云

煤袋星云

This stunning image captures a small region on the edge of the inky Coalsack Nebula, or Caldwell 99. Caldwell 99 is a dark nebula — a dense cloud of interstellar dust that completely blocks out visible wavelengths of light from objects behind it. The object at the center of the image is a (much smaller) protoplanetary nebula. The protoplanetary nebula phase is a late stage in the life of a star in which it has ejected a shell of hydrogen gas and is quickly heating up. This stage only lasts for a few thousand years before the protoplanetary nebula’s central star reaches roughly 30,000 Kelvin (approximately 17,000 degrees Fahrenheit). At this point, the central star is producing enough energy to make its surrounding shell of…

太平洋上空的日出

太平洋上空的日出

This view of a sunrise breaking through the Earth’s horizon was taken on Feb 3, 2021, as the International Space Station orbited 271 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Chile in South America. The space station, humanity’s only orbital laboratory, orbits the Earth about every 90 minutes, witnessing around 16 sunrises each day. Image Credit: NASA 这张冲破地球地平线的日出照片拍摄于2021年2月3日,当时国际空间站在距南美洲智利南部海岸271英里的太平洋上空环绕飞行。国际空间站是人类唯一的轨道实验室,它每90分钟绕地球公转一圈,每天见证大约16次日出。 图片来源:美国国家航空航天局

珍妮特·埃普斯:宇航员和航空航天工程师

珍妮特·埃普斯:宇航员和航空航天工程师

In this image from 2018, NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps trains in a U.S. spacesuit at the Johnson Space Center. Epps is assigned to NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission, the first operational crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station. She will join NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Josh Cassada for a six-month expedition planned for launch in 2021 to the orbiting space laboratory. The flight will follow NASA certification after a successful uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 and Crew Flight Test with astronauts. The spaceflight will be the first for Epps, who earned a doctorate in aerospace engineering in 2000, from the University of Maryland, College Park. While earning her doctorate, Epps was a NASA Graduate Student Researchers Project fellow,…

这张照片摄于小麦哲伦星云的“翅膀”下

这张照片摄于小麦哲伦星云的“翅膀”下

The tip of the “wing” of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this 2013 view from NASA’s Great Observatories. The Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC, is a small galaxy about 200,000 light-years way that orbits our own Milky Way spiral galaxy. The colors represent wavelengths of light across a broad spectrum. X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory are shown in purple; visible-light from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is colored red, green and blue; and infrared observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope are also represented in red. The spiral galaxy seen in the lower corner is actually behind this nebula. Other distant galaxies located hundreds of millions of light-years or more away can be seen sprinkled around the edge of the image. The SMC…