保护地球，探索宇宙，发现文明
The crew aboard the International Space Station has a window on Planet Earth. In this image an orbital sunrise beams across Earth’s horizon revealing silhouetted clouds above the South China Sea. Every 24 hours, the space station makes 16 orbits of Earth, traveling through 16 sunrises and sunsets. Learn More International Space Station Facts and Figure...
2022年4月22日 Planet Earth at Twilight Image Credit: ISS Expedition 2 Crew, Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth, NASA Explanation: No sudden, sharp boundary marks the passage of day into night in this gorgeous view of ocean and clouds over our fair planet Earth. Instead, the shadow line or terminator is diffuse and shows the gradual transition to darkness...
2022年4月17日 Shuttle Over Earth Image Credit: NASA, Expedition 22 Crew Explanation: What’s that approaching? Astronauts on board the International Space Station in 2010 first saw it far in the distance. Soon it enlarged to become a dark silhouette. As it came even closer, the silhouette appeared to be a spaceship. Finally, the object revealed itself to b...
NASA and the National Park Service worked together to create a web-based tool that helps park managers better understand the impact of outdoor lighting and noise on animal species in national parks. The website allows park managers to choose a time period, such as the spring or winter seasons, and then zoom into a particular park to see sound and nighttime l...
Japan’s Geiyo Archipelago, in the Seito Inland Sea, was once home to pirates. From the 9th to the 16th centuries, the pirates dominated the Inland Sea and terrorized the coasts of East Asia. Until the Shimanami Kaido (Inland Wave Sea Road) was completed in 1999, the Geiyo Islands were a remote region, accessible only by boat. This ASTER image was acqui...
4月份的天空会发生什么？行星近合和北斗七星中隐藏的惊喜。
永久冻土的融化会导致土地消失，如图所示，阿拉斯加德鲁角沿岸的部分海岸断崖已塌陷入海。 影像来源：本杰明·琼斯，美国地质勘探局 为了更全面地了解气候变化是如何影响地球上的冰冻地区，科学家们正在结合从空气、陆地和太空收集的数据。 被困在地球永久冻土层（至少会冻结两年的土地）中的是无数的温室气体、微生物和化学物质，包括现在被禁止的杀虫剂DDT。随着地球变暖，永久冻土正在以越来越快的速度融化，科学家们在试图确定永久冻土融化的潜在影响时面临着许多不确定性。 今年早些时候发表在《自然评论地球与环境》杂志上的一篇论文着眼于永久冻土研究的现状。除了强调关于永久冻土融化的结论外，这篇论文还关注了研究人员正在寻求如何解决围绕它的问题。 基础设施已经受到影响：永久冻土融化导致巨大的天坑、电线杆坍塌、道路和跑道受损以及树木倒塌。很难看...
The Pilbara in northwestern Australia exposes some of the oldest rocks on Earth, over 3.6 billion years old. The iron-rich rocks formed before the presence of atmospheric oxygen, and life itself. Found upon these rocks are 3.45 billion-year-old fossil stromatolites, colonies of microbial cyanobacteria. The image, acquired in October 2004, is a composite of A...
The LAMP mission, short for Loss through Auroral Microburst Pulsations, launched on Saturday, Marc 5, 2022, aboard a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket. The mission will study an often overlooked kind of aurora, called a pulsating aurora, and test a theory on what causes them. Like all aurora, a pulsating aurora is set alight by electrons (and occasio...
3月份的天空会发生什么？认识早晨的行星、最近的星团，还有自己动手寻找系外行星。