54年前:阿波罗11号宇航员在月球上行走

54年前:阿波罗11号宇航员在月球上行走

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot of Apollo 11, the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during a walk on the lunar surface. The lunar module is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil of the moon. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, mission commander, took this picture with a 70mm Hasselblad lunar surface camera. Image Credit: NASA 首次登月任务阿波罗11号的登月舱飞行员、宇航员巴兹·奥尔德林在月球表面行走时,在展开的美国国旗旁摆出姿势拍照。登月舱在左边,宇航员的脚印在月球的土壤中清晰可见。任务指挥官、宇航员尼尔·A·阿姆斯特朗用70毫米的哈苏月球表面相机拍摄了这张照片。 影像来源:NASA

阿波罗8号宇航员比尔·安德斯拍摄了地出

阿波罗8号宇航员比尔·安德斯拍摄了地出

On Dec. 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon, and the first to witness the magnificent sight called “Earthrise.” As the spacecraft was in the process of rotating, Anders took this iconic picture showing Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon. In 2018, the International Astronomical Union commemorated the event by naming a 25 mile diameter crater “Anders’ Earthrise.” Relive the astronauts’ experience. Image Credit: NASA 1968年12月24日,阿波罗8号的宇航员弗兰克·博尔曼、吉姆·洛威尔和比尔·安德斯成为第一批绕月飞行的人类,也是第一批目睹“地出”这一壮观景象的人。当飞船在旋转的过程中,安德斯拍下了这张地球从月球地平线升起的标志性照片。2018年,国际天文学联合会将一个直径25英里的陨石坑命名为“安德斯的地出”,以此纪念这一事件。” 重温宇航员的经历。 图片来源: NASA

阿波罗15号在月球地平线上拍摄地球

阿波罗15号在月球地平线上拍摄地球

This view of the crescent Earth over the Moon’s horizon was taken during the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission. Apollo 15 launched from the Kennedy Space Center on July 26, 1971 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. Aboard was a crew of three astronauts: David R. Scott, mission commander; James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot; and Alfred M. Worden, command module pilot. Designed to explore the Moon over longer periods, greater ranges, and with more instruments for the collection of scientific data than before, Apollo 15 included the introduction of a $40 million lunar roving vehicle (LRV) that reached a top speed of 16 kph (10 mph) across the Moon’s surface. The successful Apollo 15 lunar landing mission was the first in a series of…

回顾:乔治·卡拉瑟斯博士和阿波罗16号远紫外线照相机/摄谱仪

回顾:乔治·卡拉瑟斯博士和阿波罗16号远紫外线照相机/摄谱仪

Dr. George Carruthers, a scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory, stands to the right of his invention, the gold-plated ultraviolet camera/spectrograph. The first Moon-based observatory, Carruthers developed it for the Apollo 16 mission. He stands beside his colleague William Conway. Working for the Naval Research Laboratory, Carruthers had three years earlier received a patent for a Far Ultraviolet Electrographic Camera, which obtained images of electromagnetic radiation in short wavelengths. Apollo 16 astronauts placed the observatory on the Moon in April 1972, where it sits today on the Moon’s Descartes highland region, in the shadow of the lunar module Orion. Asked to explain highlights of the instrument’s findings for a general audience, Dr. Carruthers said “the most immediately obvious and spectacular results were really for the…