墨西哥湾的伊达利亚飓风

墨西哥湾的伊达利亚飓风

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As the International Space Station orbited 261 miles above Earth on Aug. 29, 2023, one of the space station’s external high-definition cameras captured Hurricane Idalia in the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Idalia made landfall over the Big Bend region of Florida on the morning of Aug. 30, 2023, as a category 3 storm. Winds measured 205 kilometers (125 miles) per hour as the storm reached land. Watch an animation of the storm’s wind field. Image Credit: NASA 2023年8月29日，当国际空间站在地球上空261英里的轨道上运行时，空间站的一个外部高清相机在墨西哥湾捕捉到了飓风伊达利亚。2023年8月30日上午，飓风伊达利亚在佛罗里达州的大本德地区登陆，成为3级飓风。飓风登陆时风速为每小时205公里（125英里）。观看风暴风场的动画。 图片来源: NASA

圭恩·布鲁福德，第一位进入太空的非裔美国人

圭恩·布鲁福德，第一位进入太空的非裔美国人

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In this image from Sept. 5, 1983, Guion “Guy” Bluford checks out the sample pump on the continuous flow electrophoresis system (CFES) experiment in the middeck of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Challenger. Forty years ago today, he launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, becoming the first African American to fly in space. Bluford was a member of NASA’s “Thirty-Five New Guys” – the 1978 astronaut class, which had the first African American, the first Asian American, and the first women astronauts. During the STS-8 mission, the crew deployed the Indian National Satellite INSAT-1B, operated the Canadian-built Remote Manipulator System with the Payload Flight Test Article, operated the CFES, conducted medical measurements to understand biophysiological effects of spaceflight, and activated four “Getaway Special” canisters….

用气象气球研究风

用气象气球研究风

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Rocky Garcia and Wesley James prepare a weather balloon to collect wind data at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on July 20, 2023. Researchers measured wind at altitudes below 2,000 feet using drones, sensors, weather balloons, and other technology during the Advanced Exploration of Reliable Operation at Low Altitudes: Meteorology, Simulation and Technology campaign. This information could fill knowledge gaps to resolve wind and weather unknowns that could hinder Advanced Air Mobility flights and to improve weather forecasts. Image Credit: NASA/Carla Thomas 2023年7月20日，洛基·加西亚和韦斯利·詹姆斯在NASA位于加利福尼亚州爱德华兹的阿姆斯特朗飞行研究中心准备一个气象气球来收集风的数据。在“低空可靠运行高级探索:气象、模拟和技术”活动中，研究人员使用无人机、传感器、气象气球和其他技术测量了2000英尺以下高度的风。这些信息可以填补知识空白，解决可能阻碍先进空中机动飞行的风和天气未知问题，并改善天气预报。 影像来源：NASA/Carla Thomas

Crew-7升空

Crew-7升空

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At 3:27 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 26, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 crew members launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. They docked to the International Space Station and joined the current space station crew on Sunday, Aug. 27. While on the orbiting laboratory, Crew-7 will conduct new scientific research to benefit humanity on Earth and prepare for human exploration beyond low Earth orbit, including the collection of microbial samples from the exterior of the space station, the first study of human response to different spaceflight durations, and an investigation of the physiological…

哈勃看到一个闪亮的临近星系

哈勃看到一个闪亮的临近星系

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The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy, which lies 28.7 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus, is a ghostly assemblage of stars which resembles a sparkling cloud. Other distant galaxies and foreground stars complete this astronomical portrait, which was captured by the Advanced Camera for Surveys. This observation is one of a series which aims to get to know our galactic neighbors. Hubble has observed around three quarters of known galaxies within about 10 megaparsecs of Earth in enough detail to resolve their brightest stars and establish distances to these galaxies. A team of astronomers proposed using small gaps in Hubble’s observing schedule to acquaint ourselves with the remaining quarter of these nearby galaxies….

测试美国首个载人运载火箭——水星-红石号

测试美国首个载人运载火箭——水星-红石号

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A Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle awaits test-firing in the Redstone Test Stand at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in this photo from the late 1950s. Between 1953 and 1960, the rocket team at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville performed hundreds of test firings on the Redstone rocket – over 200 on the Mercury-Redstone vehicle configuration alone. Through Project Mercury, the United States’ first human-in-space program, Mercury-Redstone provided NASA with an opportunity to understand performance aspects of the Mercury spacecraft, the effect of a weightless environment on astronauts, and launch and recovery operations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image Credit: NASA 在这张20世纪50年代末的照片中，一架水星-红石运载火箭正在阿拉巴马州亨茨维尔的NASA马歇尔航天飞行中心的红石测试台上等待试射。1953年至1960年间，位于亨茨维尔的红石兵工厂的火箭团队对红石火箭进行了数百次试射——仅水星-红石运载火箭配置就超过200次。 通过美国首个载人太空计划“水星计划”，水星-红石号为NASA提供了一个机会，了解水星飞船的性能、失重环境对宇航员的影响，以及佛罗里达州NASA肯尼迪航天中心的发射和回收操作。 影像来源：NASA

普赛克组合到一起

普赛克组合到一起

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In this image from July 18, 2023, a NASA team helps attach solar arrays for the agency’s Psyche spacecraft onto a stand inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The solar arrays are part of the solar electric propulsion system, provided by Maxar Technologies. They will power the spacecraft on its journey to explore a metal-rich asteroid. Psyche is scheduled to lift off at 10:38 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 5, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. Register to attend the Psyche spacecraft launch and create content based on the experience. Image Credit: NASA/Isaac Watson 在这张来自2023年7月18日的图像中，NASA的一个团队帮助该机构的普赛克（Psyche）航天器将太阳能电池板安装到佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心附近的Astrotech空间操作设施内的支架上。太阳能电池板是太阳能电力推进系统的一部分，由Maxar技术公司提供。它们将为探索一颗富含金属的小行星的航天器提供动力。 普赛克计划于美国东部时间10月5日星期四上午10:38乘坐SpaceX猎鹰重型火箭从肯尼迪39A发射中心升空。 注册参加普赛克航天器发射活动，并根据体验创建媒体内容。 图片来源: NASA/Isaac Watson

通往月球的大门

通往月球的大门

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Gateway’s International Habitat (I-Hab) module, provided by the European Space Agency (ESA), is the focus of this rendered image from Aug. 18, 2023. I-Hab is one of two of the space station’s habitation modules along with HALO, the Habitation and Logistics Outpost. Astronauts will live, conduct research, and prepare for lunar surface missions inside the two living quarters. I-Hab will also house life support systems and camera equipment that will enhance Gateway’s scientific research capabilities. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s planned contributions include I-HAB’s environmental control and life support system, batteries, thermal control, and imagery components. They will be integrated into the module by ESA prior to launch. Gateway will be humanity’s first space station in lunar orbit to support NASA’s deep space exploration plans,…

Crew-7机组成员抵达进行发射前活动

Crew-7机组成员抵达进行发射前活动

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission is the seventh crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The crew members (Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, left, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, second from left, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, second from right, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, right) spoke at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 20, 2023, ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission. Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa, and Borisov are scheduled to launch at 3:49 a.m. EDT on Aug. 25. See coverage for Crew-7 and follow all live events at nasa.gov/live. Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky 美国宇航局的SpaceX Crew-7任务是SpaceX龙飞船和猎鹰9号火箭前往国际空间站的第七次机组成员轮换任务，这是该机构商业机组计划的一部分。2023年8月20日，在NASA SpaceX Crew-7任务开始之前，机组成员（俄罗斯联邦航天局宇航员康斯坦丁·鲍里索夫，左二，欧洲航天局宇航员安德烈亚斯·莫根森，左二，美国宇航局宇航员贾斯敏·莫格贝里，右二，日本宇宙航空研究开发机构宇航员古川聡，右）在NASA佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心的发射和着陆设施上发表了讲话。莫格贝里、莫根森、古川聡和博里索夫计划于美国东部时间8月25日凌晨3点49分发射。…

哈勃望远镜拍摄到宇宙星系团

哈勃望远镜拍摄到宇宙星系团

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The massive cluster Abell 3322 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in which the galaxy 2MASX J05101744-4519179 basks in the center. This distant galaxy cluster is a cosmic leviathan that is highly luminous at X-ray wavelengths. Observing galaxy clusters like Abell 3322 can advance our understanding of the evolution and interactions of dark and luminous matter in galaxy clusters, and also reveals powerful gravitational ‘telescopes’ that magnify distant objects through gravitational lensing. Knowing the location of these lenses can enable future observations with both Hubble and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy cluster is located in the constellation Pictor, around 2.6 billion light-years from Earth. Two of Hubble’s instruments joined forces to create this image: Wide Field Camera…