【翻译】大西洋月刊4月24日隆重推出2013年“太阳系旅行记”

                               
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December 13, 2012 marked the 40th anniversary of Apollo 17, the last manned lunar trip. Here, in this photograph from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar orbit in 1972, the crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon. (Reuters/NASA) #

                               
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2012年12月13日庆祝阿波罗17号飞船登月40周年展出的这张“月亮与地球母亲”的照片，摄于1972年

                               
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On Mars, a self-portrait of NASA's rover Curiosity, combining dozens of exposures taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the 177th Martian day, or sol, is seen in this February 3, 2013 image. The rover is positioned at a patch of flat outcrop called "John Klein," which was selected as the site for the first rock-drilling activities by Curiosity. (Reuters/NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) #

                               
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好奇号与火星

                               
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Curiosity rover on Mars, seen from above by the HiRise camera on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This image shows the entire distance traveled from the landing site (dark smudge at left) to its location as of January 2,2013 (the rover is bright feature at right). The tracks are not seen where the rover has recently driven over the lighter-toned surface. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) #

                               
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好奇号拍摄的火星表面图片

                               
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This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows Mount Sharp in a white-balanced color adjustment that makes the sky look overly blue but shows the terrain as if under Earth-like lighting. Mount Sharp, also called Aeolis Mons, is a layered mound in the center of Mars' Gale Crater, rising more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the crater floor, where Curiosity has been working since the rover's landing in August 2012. Lower slopes of Mount Sharp are the major destination for the mission, though the rover will first spend many more weeks around a location called "Yellowknife Bay," where it has found evidence of a past environment favorable for microbial life. Images gathered on September 20, 2012. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) #

                               
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好奇号近来在火星探测方面屡有斩获，就在上周科学家刚刚从好奇号传回的火星岩石分析数据中获知其拥有孕育初级生命的环境之后不久，NASA本周再次通过好奇号所搭载的100毫米焦距相机首次完整的拍摄下了“夏普山”（Mount Sharp）影像。
NASA的工作人员介绍称，火星表面的“夏普山”（Mount Sharp）是以其发现者罗伯特·夏普（Robert Sharp）的名字命名，其位于火星盖尔环形山（Gale Crater）的内部中心地带，高于火星地表3英里（约4828米），山势比较平缓，这里也是接下来一段时间好奇号所要重点探查的地区。
同时，为了与地球环境做比对，NASA特意发布了“白平衡”和“原色彩”两个版本的“夏普山”（Mount Sharp）全景照片。

                               
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A fresh drill hole, center, made by the Curiosity rover on Mars, on February 8, 2013 next to an earlier test hole. Curiosity has completed its first drill into a Martian rock, a huge milestone since landing in an ancient crater in August 2012. (AP Photo/NASA) #

                               
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好奇号在火星上钻出的小孔

                               
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This sequence of seven images from the HiRise camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows wind-caused changes in the parachute of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft as the chute lay on the Martian ground during months after its use in safe landing of the Curiosity rover. The parachute canopy is the bright shape in the lower half of each image. Suspension lines still attach it to the spacecraft's back shell, which is the bright shape in the upper half of each image. The length of the parachute, including the lines, is about 165 feet (50 meters). (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona) #

                               
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火星勘测轨道飞行器（Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter，MRO）是美国国家航空航天局的2005年火星探测计划之一，这是MRO拍摄的好奇号着陆火星的视频

                               
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A Martian eclipse from the past. The larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, transits (passes in front of) the sun in this image from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity taken on the rover's 2,415th Martian day, or sol November 9, 2010. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Texas A&M) #

                               
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火星上看到的日食，是由火星比较大的一颗卫星拦住太阳形成

                               
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A radar data image of asteroid Toutatis, generated with data collected using NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, on December 12, 2012. On December 12, the day of its closest approach to Earth, Toutatis was about 18 lunar distances, 4.3 million miles (6.9 million km) from Earth. The radar data images indicate that it is an elongated, irregularly shaped object with ridges and perhaps craters. Along with shape detail, scientists are also seeing some interesting bright glints that could be surface boulders. The asteroid rotates about its long axis every 5.4 days and precesses (changes the orientation of its rotational axis) like a wobbling, badly thrown football, every 7.4 days. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) #

                               
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小行星陶塔雷达图像数据（中国嫦娥2 太空探测器曾经飞临这颗小行星而成为世界著名）。
12月15日，中国国家国防科技工业局发布消息，“嫦娥二号”卫星12月13日飞离日地拉格朗日L2点195天后，成功飞抵距地球约700万公里远的深空，以10.73公里/秒的相对速度，与国际编号4179的图塔蒂斯小行星由远及近擦身而过，首次实现中国对小行星的飞越探测。交会时“嫦娥二号”星载监视相机对小行星进行了光学成像，这是国际上首次实现对该小行星近距离探测。至此，“嫦娥二号”再拓展试验圆满成功，“嫦娥二号”工程完美收官。图为12月13日，北京航天飞行控制中心实时测控“嫦娥二号”飞越探测小行星任务。

                               
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This image provided by NASA shows long, narrow gullies along the walls of a crater on the giant asteroid Vesta taken by the NASA Dawn spacecraft. Scientists are unclear how these gullies formed and work is underway to determine their origin. (AP Photo/NASA) #

                               
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美国宇航局的达尔文探测器发现了4号小行星 “4 Vesta”，即灶神星的一些出乎意料的表面特征，如这个巨大的环形山。

                               
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Comet ISON photographed by the Hubble telescope on April 10, 2013, when the comet was slightly closer than Jupiter's orbit at a distance of 386 million miles from the Sun (394 million miles from Earth). Comet ISON is potentially the "comet of the century" because around the time the comet makes its closest approach to the Sun, on November 28, it may briefly become brighter than the full Moon according to NASA. (Reuters/NASA Hubble telescope) #

                               
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2013年4月1日哈勃望远镜拍摄的镜拍摄的彗星C/2012 S1 (ISON) 的对比度增强的影像，揭示了彗头内部的微妙结构。在这张经过电脑处理过的影像内，哈勃影像被计算机模拟的彗头分开，计算机模拟的彗头的亮度随着和彗核的距离按比例降低，假设彗星表面均匀地产生尘埃。ISON的相机显示被增强的尘埃颗粒从彗核面对太阳的一侧被释放出来。这些信息对确定彗星的形状，演化和固态彗核的自转是很有价值的。影像提供：NASA, ESA, J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute), and the Hubble Comet ISON Imaging Science Team.

ISON彗星是潜在的“世纪彗星”，因为这颗彗星正在最靠近太阳，11月28日，它的亮度将短暂地比满月还要明亮。目前这颗彗星的亮度远低于裸眼可见的程度，因此我们利用哈勃空间望远镜拍摄了正在以大约每小时47000英里的速度逼近太阳的彗星的影像。

哈勃影像是于4月10日拍摄的，这颗彗星只比木星的轨道略靠近太阳些，距离太阳3亿8600万英里。在那么遥远的距离上，太阳也足以温暖这颗彗星，触发了锁定在固态彗核内冰冻气体的释放。哈勃拍摄到了彗核面对太阳的一侧向外喷发尘埃颗粒的喷流。

哈勃影像的初步测量表明，ISON彗星的彗核不超过3英里或者4英里范围。这颗彗星于2012年9月由俄罗斯领导的国际科学光学网（ISON）利用16英寸望远镜发现。

                               
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Jupiter has been suffering more impacts over the last four years than ever previously observed, including this meteoroid impact on September 10, 2012. The left-hand image was taken from a red-filtered video by amateur astronomer George Hall of Dallas, Texas, on September 10 and processed by Ricardo Hueso (University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain). The right-hand image is an infrared image from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, taken on September 11. Scientists compare the visible-light images to the infrared images to learn about the fireball's disruption of the Jovian atmosphere. In this case, the infrared view reveals no long-term disturbance. Scientists think the fireball was caused by an object less than 45 feet (15 meters) in diameter. (NASA/IRTF/JPL-Caltech/G. Hall/University of the Basque Country) #

                               
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过去四年来木星遭受的影响更多

                               
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Dawn on Saturn is greeted across the vastness of interplanetary space by the morning star, Venus, in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Venus appears just off the edge of the planet, in the upper part of the image, directly above the white streak of Saturn's G ring. Lower down, Saturn's E ring makes an appearance, looking blue thanks to the scattering properties of the dust that comprises the ring. A bright spot near the E ring is a distant star. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) #

                               
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卡西尼号拍摄土星环及金星（右上角小白点）

                               
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NASA's Cassini orbiter spies Titan's south polar vortex from below the moon in this September 13, 2012 image, while in orbit around Saturn. Imaging scientists are monitoring the vortex to study its seasonal development. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) #

                               
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卡西尼拍摄的土星最大卫星土卫六泰坦（Titan）的南极光，土卫六被科学家发现可能存在生命

                               
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Roiling storm clouds and a swirling vortex at the center of Saturn's famed north polar hexagon, in a close-up image from NASA's Cassini mission, on November 27, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Saturn from approximately 224,618 miles (361,488 kilometers) away. (Reuters/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) #

                               
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距离土星约36万公里的卡西尼拍摄的土星风暴

                               
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has delivered this view of Saturn, taken while the spacecraft was in Saturn's shadow, on December 18, 2012. The cameras were turned toward Saturn and the sun so that the planet and rings were backlit. This special, very-high-phase viewing geometry lets scientists study ring and atmosphere phenomena not easily seen at a lower phase. (AP Photo/NASA) #

                               
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卡西尼拍摄的土星环，2012年12月18日

                               
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Hermann Hafsteinsson asked simply for "Astronomy". One of my favorite recent images from NASA's Cassini orbiter fills the bill: Peering over the shoulder of giant Saturn, through its rings, and across interplanetary space, Cassini spies the bright, cloudy terrestrial planet, Venus through Saturn's rings. The vast distance from Saturn means that Venus only shows up as a white dot, just above and to the right of the image center. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 17 degrees below the ring plane, on November 10, 2012. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) #

                               
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卡西尼拍摄的土星环，图中的小白点是金星

真壮观。

这是什么意思 难道是防插楼的？{:soso_e127:}

siuir 发表于 2013-4-29 12:15

                               
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这是什么意思 难道是防插楼的？

正是如此！多些理解与支持！

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