秃鹰降落在肯尼迪航天中心
2023年4月10日,NASA肯尼迪航天中心,一只美国秃鹰俯冲降落在一根杆子上。这只鹰是在筑巢季节在佛罗里达太空港定居的一对伴侣中的一员。今年,这对夫妇在肯尼迪公园路附近的一棵树上饲养了一只孤独的幼鹰,该巢穴距离车辆装配大楼约两英里。肯尼迪目前是大约20对筑巢的秃鹰的家园。
2023年4月10日,NASA肯尼迪航天中心,一只美国秃鹰俯冲降落在一根杆子上。这只鹰是在筑巢季节在佛罗里达太空港定居的一对伴侣中的一员。今年,这对夫妇在肯尼迪公园路附近的一棵树上饲养了一只孤独的幼鹰,该巢穴距离车辆装配大楼约两英里。肯尼迪目前是大约20对筑巢的秃鹰的家园。
This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows JO204, a ‘jellyfish galaxy’ so named for the bright tendrils of gas that appear in this image as drifting lazily below JO204’s bright central bulk. The galaxy lies almost 600 million light-years away in the constellation Sextans. Hubble observed JO204 as part of a survey performed with the inten...
Floodwater (dark blue) stands out against the vegetation in agricultural fields around Tulare Lake near Corcoran, California, in this enhanced color image taken by Landsat 8 on March 29, 2023. Heavy rain and snow in the first three months of 2023 have once again brought water to Tulare’s lakebed, but also flooding several nearby towns. 2023 has been the wett...
Former NASA astronaut Alvin Drew shakes hands with a guest during the White House Easter Egg Roll in this photo from Monday, April 10, 2023. The agency also brought spacewalk suits for children to see and try on, shared images of space, and conducted an egg drop experiment. Embracing the event’s “EGGucation” theme, NASA’s STEM activities even took place in s...
NASA’s X-59 sits in support framing while undergoing the installation of its lower empennage, or tail section, at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, in this image from late March 2023. Once complete, the X-59 aircraft—the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission—is designed to demonstrate the ability to fly supersonic while reducing the loud so...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson (left), Jeannie Schulz, widow of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, and Snoopy are all smiles during a Wednesday, April 5, 2023, visit to NASA Headquarters in Washington. As part of the visit, Schulz showed the flown Artemis I Snoopy zero gravity indicator before it goes to its final home for display at the Schulz Museum in San...
Industrial-size robots built by high school teams compete against each other in a game at Rocket City Regional, Alabama’s annual FIRST Robotics Competition, in this March 16, 2018, image. At this year’s competition, more than 1,000 high school students on 50 teams from 15 states, Mexico, and Brazil will compete. NASA and its Robotics Alliance Project p...
From left, astronauts Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Christina Hammock Koch talk with television host Stephen Colbert on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on April 5, 2023. The astronauts, who will orbit the Moon aboard Artemis II in late 2024, appeared on the show after being named by NASA and the Canadian Space Agency on Apri...
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen (from left) and NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch greet the crowd at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Monday, April 3, 2023. They make up the Artemis II crew, with Wiseman as commander, Glover as pilot, and Koch and Hansen as mission specialists. The four will vent...
Phytoplankton create rich blooms of color in the Atlantic Ocean near South America in this enhanced color image from Dec. 2, 2014. The Patagonian Shelf Break is a biologically rich patch of ocean where airborne dust from the land, iron-rich currents from the south, and upwelling currents from the depths provide a bounty of nutrients for phytoplankton. The ba...