Month in space: June 2011

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-3 19:00:07

Paolo Nespoli / NASA / ESA

Ultimate space shot

Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli took this unprecedented picture of the space shuttle Endeavour docked to the International Space Station on May 23 as he was leaving the station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The picture, along with others that were taken during the unique opportunity, was released June 7.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-3 19:00:19

ss-110630-misp-02.ss_full.jpg 保存到相册

NASA via Reuters

Cleared for landing

NASA controller Larry Parker monitors air traffic from the control tower at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, moments before the space shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing at the center's Shuttle Landing Facility on June 1. The night landing capped a 16-day mission to deliver a cosmic ray detector to the International Space Station.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-3 19:00:31

ss-110630-misp-03.ss_full.jpg 保存到相册

Nasa / Reuters

Ghost ship

The space shuttle Endeavour takes on a ghostly appearance as it lands at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 1. With its final mission completed, Endeavour heads for retirement and its eventual display as a museum piece at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-3 19:00:44

ss-110630-misp-04.ss_full.jpg 保存到相册

HIRISE

Sands of Mars

Martian sand piles up in weird crescent-shaped dunes in the Nili Patera region of the Red Planet. These orbital pictures were captured by the high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and released on June 8.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-3 19:00:58

ss-110630-misp-05.ss_full.jpg 保存到相册

Nasa/johns Hopkins University Ap / EPA

Moody Mercury

The cratered surface of the planet Mercury stands out against the blackness of space in this picture from NASA's Messenger probe, captured on May 24 and made available on June 18.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-3 19:03:06

ss-110630-misp-06.ss_full.jpg 保存到相册

Dennis M. Sabangan / EPA

Darkness at dawn

Earth casts its dark shadow over the full moon during a lunar eclipse, seen from Manila Bay in the Philippines at dawn on June 16.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-3 19:03:22

ss-110630-misp-07.ss_full.jpg 保存到相册

Bazuki Muhammad / Reuters

Watching the eclipse

A man uses a telescope to watch for the total eclipse of the moon from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia in June 16. The eclipse was visible from wide areas of Europe, Asia and Africa, but not from North America.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-3 19:03:44

ss-110630-misp-08.ss_full.jpg 保存到相册

Chandra X-ray Observatory Center / X-ray: NASA/CXC/ITA/INAF/J.Merte

Clash of clusters

This composite image, released June 22, features one of the most complicated and dramatic collisions between galaxy clusters ever seen. Known officially as Abell 2744, this system has been dubbed Pandora's Cluster because of the wide variety of different structures found. Data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (depicted in red) show gas with temperatures of millions of degrees. In blue is a map showing the total mass concentration (mostly dark matter) based on data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Very Large Telescope and the Subaru telescope.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-3 19:04:09

ss-110630-misp-09.ss_full.jpg 保存到相册

Christopher Furlong / Getty Images

In the dish

Engineers carry out maintenance on the focus box inside the 76-meter dish of the the Lovell Telescope on June 21 in Holmes Chapel, England.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-3 19:04:22

ss-110630-misp-10.ss_full.jpg 保存到相册

AFP - Getty Images

Green Lantern's ring?

This emerald nebula, seen in a June 20 infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, is reminiscent of the glowing ring wielded by the superhero Green Lantern. In the comic books, the Guardians of the Planet "Oa" forged the Green Lantern's power ring, but astronomers believe rings like this are actually sculpted by the powerful light of giant "O" stars, the most massive type of star known to exist. Named RCW 120, this region of hot gas and glowing dust can be found in the murky clouds encircled by the tail of the constellation Scorpius.

帐号		自动登录	找回密码
密码			免费注册

[2011年] Month in space: June 2011

相关帖子 » 标签