2021年02月06日 A Northern Winter Night Image Credit & Copyright: Lukasz Zak Explanation: Snow blankets the ground in this serene forest and sky view. Assembled in a 360 degree panoramic projection, the mosaicked frames were captured at January’s end along a quiet country road near Siemiony, […]
2021年02月05日 Apollo 14 Heads for Home Image Credit: Apollo 14, NASA, JSC, ASU (Image Reprocessing: Andy Saunders) Explanation: Fifty years ago this Sunday (February 7, 1971), the crew of Apollo 14 left lunar orbit and headed for home. They watched this Earthrise from their command module Kittyhawk. W
Apollo 14 arrived in lunar orbit on Feb. 4, 1971, to prepare for the landing in and exploration of the Fra Mauro highlands. Apollo 14 launched carrying astronauts Commander Alan Shepard, lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell, and command module pilot Stuart Roosa. Engineers had modified the spacecraft t
This picture of the waning gibbous Moon was taken on Jan 29, 2021, the day after its full Moon phase as the International Space Station orbited 264 miles above China near the Mongolian border. Humanity’s only orbital laboratory, the space station, orbits the Earth about 90 minutes or about 16
Victor Glover, a Navy pilot who has accumulated 3,000 flight hours in more than 40 aircraft, over 400 carrier arrested landings and 24 combat missions, took his first spacewalk on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. In this image, he works to ready the International Space Station’s port-side truss struct
The STS-107 crewmembers strike a ‘flying’ pose for their traditional in-flight crew portrait in the SPACEHAB Research Double Module aboard the space shuttle Columbia. From the left (top row), wearing blue shirts, are astronauts David M. Brown, mission specialist; William C. McCool, pilot; and Michae
2021年02月04日 Apollo 14: A View from Antares Image Credit: Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14, NASA; Mosaic – Eric M. Jones Explanation: Fifty years ago this Friday, Apollo 14’s Lunar Module Antares landed on the Moon. Toward the end of the stay astronaut Ed Mitchell snapped a series of photos of t
2021年2月的观星亮点有哪些？在日落之后的一个月寻找火星，特别是2月18日NASA计划登陆火星的夜晚。然后，在月亮造访双子星的明亮恒星之前，请先观看月亮在冬季大圆圈上滑行。 首先，随着NASA准备在2月18日将其最新的漫游者毅力号登陆火星，人们对这颗红色星球的兴奋情绪正在升温。整个月日落之后你都能在西边的高处看到火星，火星应该在当地时间午夜左右或附近整晚可见。 在NASA计划的火星漫游者登陆的夜晚，在靠近月球的西边发现红色行星。 来源：NASA/JPL-Caltech 在NASA计划登陆火星的夜晚，你会发现在这颗红色星球的旁边有半圆的月亮。所以，走出去，用你自己的眼睛看一看——特别是如果你是
2021年02月03日 Found on the Moon: Candidate for Oldest Known Earth Rock Video Credit: NASA, Astromaterials 3D, Erika Blumenfeld et al. Explanation: Was the oldest known rock on Earth found on the Moon? Quite possibly. The story opens with the Apollo 14 lunar mission. Lunar sample 14321, a large rock fo
2021年02月02日 A Colorful Quadrantid Meteor Image Credit & Copyright: Frank Kuszaj Explanation: Meteors can be colorful. While the human eye usually cannot discern many colors, cameras often can. Pictured is a Quadrantids meteor captured by camera over Missouri, USA, early this month that was not
