阿波罗11号：捕捉太阳

阿波罗11号：捕捉太阳

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2023年7月29日 Apollo 11: Catching Some Sun Image Credit: Apollo 11, NASA (Image scanned by Kipp Teague) Explanation: Bright sunlight glints as long dark shadows mark this image of the surface of the Moon. It was taken fifty-four years ago, July 20, 1969, by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first to walk on the lunar surface. Pictured is the mission’s lunar module, the Eagle, and spacesuited lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin. Aldrin is unfurling a long sheet of foil also known as the Solar Wind Composition Experiment. Exposed facing the Sun, the foil trapped particles streaming outward in the solar wind, catching a sample of material from the Sun itself. Along with moon rocks and lunar soil samples, the solar wind collector was returned for…

阿波罗11号：阿姆斯特朗的自拍照

阿波罗11号：阿姆斯特朗的自拍照

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2023年7月22日 Apollo 11: Armstrong’s Lunar Selfie Image Credit: NASA, Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong; Processing: Michael Ranger Explanation: A photograph of Buzz Aldrin standing on the Moon taken by Neil Armstrong, was digitally reversed to create this lunar selfie. Captured in July 1969 following the Apollo 11 moon landing, Armstrong’s original photograph recorded not only the magnificent desolation of an unfamiliar world, but Armstrong himself reflected in Aldrin’s curved visor. In the unwrapped image, the spherical distortion of the reflection in Aldrin’s helmet has been reversed. The transformed view features Armstrong himself from Aldrin’s perspective. Since Armstrong took the original picture, today the image represents a fifty-four year old lunar selfie. Aldrin’s visor reflection in the original image appears here on the left. Bright (but distorted)…