1971年2月4日，阿波罗14号到达月球轨道

1971年2月4日，阿波罗14号到达月球轨道

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Apollo 14 arrived in lunar orbit on Feb. 4, 1971, to prepare for the landing in and exploration of the Fra Mauro highlands. Apollo 14 launched carrying astronauts Commander Alan Shepard, lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell, and command module pilot Stuart Roosa. Engineers had modified the spacecraft to prevent a recurrence of the accident that crippled Apollo 13 the previous year. After their Saturn V rocket delivered them into a parking orbit around the Earth, the third stage reignited to send them on their way to the Moon. The primary mission objectives to the Fra Mauro region of the Moon centered on deployment of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, lunar field geology investigations; collection of surface material samples for return to Earth; and deployment…

从空间站看月球

从空间站看月球

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This picture of the waning gibbous Moon was taken on Jan 29, 2021, the day after its full Moon phase as the International Space Station orbited 264 miles above China near the Mongolian border. Humanity’s only orbital laboratory, the space station, orbits the Earth about 90 minutes or about 16 times every 24 hours. Image Credit: NASA 这张照片拍摄于2021年1月29日，也就是满月后的第二天，当时国际空间站在靠近蒙古边境的中国上空264英里的轨道上运行。空间站是人类唯一的轨道实验室，它绕地球轨道运行约90分钟，即每24小时运行16次。 图片来源:美国国家航空航天局

NASA宇航员维克多·格洛弗正在努力升级空间站

NASA宇航员维克多·格洛弗正在努力升级空间站

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Victor Glover, a Navy pilot who has accumulated 3,000 flight hours in more than 40 aircraft, over 400 carrier arrested landings and 24 combat missions, took his first spacewalk on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. In this image, he works to ready the International Space Station’s port-side truss structure for future solar array upgrades. View the Black History Month Image Gallery. #BlackHistoryMonth Image Credit: NASA 维克托·格洛弗是一名海军飞行员，他在40多架飞机上累计飞行了3000小时，完成了400多艘航母的着陆任务，并执行了24次战斗任务。他于2021年1月28日星期四进行了首次太空行走。在这张照片中，他正在为国际空间站的左舷桁架结构做准备，以备将来升级太阳能电池板。 查看黑人历史月图片画廊。 #BlackHistoryMonth 图片来源:美国国家航空航天局

铭记STS-107和它的机组人员

铭记STS-107和它的机组人员

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The STS-107 crewmembers strike a ‘flying’ pose for their traditional in-flight crew portrait in the SPACEHAB Research Double Module aboard the space shuttle Columbia. From the left (top row), wearing blue shirts, are astronauts David M. Brown, mission specialist; William C. McCool, pilot; and Michael P. Anderson, payload commander. From the left (bottom row), wearing red shirts to signify their shift’s color, are astronauts Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist; Rick D. Husband, mission commander; Laurel B. Clark, mission specialist; and Ilan Ramon, payload specialist, representing the Israeli Space Agency. On Feb. 1, 2003, the seven crewmembers were lost with the Space Shuttle Columbia over North Texas. This picture was on a roll of unprocessed film later recovered by searchers from the debris. Image Credit: NASA STS-107机组人员在哥伦比亚号航天飞机上的SPACEHAB研究双舱中为传统的飞行机组人员画像摆出飞行姿势。从左边(上排)，穿着蓝色衬衫的宇航员，是任务专家David…

哈勃望远镜发现了星际间的相互作用

哈勃望远镜发现了星际间的相互作用

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The life of a planetary nebula is often chaotic, from the death of its parent star to the scattering of its contents far out into space. Captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESO 455-10 is one such planetary nebula, located in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). The oblate shells of ESO 455-10, previously held tightly together as layers of its central star, not only give this planetary nebula its unique appearance, but also offer information about the nebula. Seen in a field of stars, the distinct asymmetrical arc of material over the north side of the nebula is a clear sign of interactions between ESO 455-10 and the interstellar medium. The interstellar medium is the material such as diffuse gas between star…

2021年1月28日，星期四，美国国家航空航天局纪念日

2021年1月28日，星期四，美国国家航空航天局纪念日

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Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk places a wreath at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial during a ceremony that was part of NASA’s Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Wreaths were laid in memory of those men and women who lost their lives in the quest for space exploration. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls 2021年1月28日星期四，美国宇航局代理局长史蒂夫·尤尔茨克在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿国家公墓举行的美国国家航空航天局纪念日仪式上向挑战者号航天飞机纪念馆敬献花圈。花圈是为了纪念那些在太空探索中牺牲的人们。 图片来源：NASA/Bill Ingalls

正在焊接第一架执行阿尔忒弥斯任务的猎户座飞船，将宇航员送上月球

正在焊接第一架执行阿尔忒弥斯任务的猎户座飞船，将宇航员送上月球

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At NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, technicians from Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin have welded together three cone-shaped panels on Orion’s crew module for the Artemis III mission that will land the first woman and next man on the Moon. The crew module’s primary structure, the pressure vessel, is comprised of seven machined aluminum alloy pieces that are welded together through a weld process that produces a strong, air-tight habitable space for astronauts during the mission. The pressure vessel is designed to withstand the harsh and demanding environment of deep space, and is the core structure upon which all the other elements of Orion’s crew module are integrated. With welding complete on the crew module cone panels – one of which contains windows…

寻找新地球

寻找新地球

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Kepler-22b is the first planet discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. This artist’s conception from 2011, shows the first planet that NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed to orbit the region around a star where liquid water, a requirement for life on Earth, could exist. This exoplanet is 2.4 times the size of Earth, making it the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a star like our Sun. At the time scientists did not know if the planet has a predominantly rocky, gaseous or liquid composition. It’s possible that the world would have clouds in its atmosphere, as depicted here in the artist’s interpretation. Image Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech 开普勒-22b是在类太阳恒星的宜居带内发现的第一颗行星。这是2011年的艺术家构想，显示了NASA开普勒任务确认的第一颗行星，该行星围绕一颗恒星运行，那里可能存在液态水，而液态水是地球上生命存在的必要条件。这颗系外行星的大小是地球的2.4倍，是迄今为止发现的在像太阳这样的恒星的宜居带中间运行的最小的行星。 当时，科学家们还不知道这颗行星的主要成分是岩石、气体还是液体。这个世界的大气中可能有云，正如艺术家在这里所描述的那样。 图片来源：NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech

欢迎深空网络的新成员

欢迎深空网络的新成员

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A powerful new antenna has been added to the NASA Space Communications and Navigation’s Deep Space Network (DSN), which connects us to the space robots exploring our solar system. Called Deep Space Station 56, or DSS-56, the dish is now online and ready to communicate with a variety of missions, including NASA’s Perseverance rover when it lands on the Red Planet next month. The new 34-meter-wide (112-foot-wide) dish has been under construction at the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex in Spain since 2017. Existing antennas are limited in the frequency bands they can receive and transmit, often restricting them to communicating only with specific spacecraft. DSS-56 is the first to use the Deep Space Network’s full range of communication frequencies as soon as it went…

哈勃太空望远镜拍摄“迷失星系”的照片

哈勃太空望远镜拍摄“迷失星系”的照片

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Located in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin), around 50 million light-years from Earth, the galaxy NGC 4535 is truly a stunning sight to behold. Despite the incredible quality of this image, taken from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, NGC 4535 has a hazy, somewhat ghostly, appearance when viewed from a smaller telescope. This led amateur astronomer Leland S. Copeland to nickname NGC 4535 the “Lost Galaxy” in the 1950s. The bright colors in this image aren’t just beautiful to look at, as they actually tell us about the population of stars within this barred spiral galaxy. The bright blue-ish colors, seen nestled amongst NGC 4535’s long, spiral arms, indicate the presence of a greater number of younger and hotter stars. In contrast, the yellower…