2020年6月9日星期二

Japan's HTV-9 Cargo Craft Helps Supply the Space Station


Japan's resupply ship, the H-II Transfer Vehicle-9 (HTV-9), is pictured attached to the International Space Station's Harmony module.

2020年6月8日星期一

The Red Planet's Holden Crater


Exquisite layering is revealed emerging from the sand in southern Holden Crater. Sequences like these offer a window into Mars' complicated geologic history.

2020年6月5日星期五

Hubble Catches Cosmic Snowflakes


The stars of the globular cluster NGC 6441 sparkle peacefully in the night sky, about 13,000 light-years from the Milky Way’s galactic center.

2020年6月4日星期四

Space Station Instrument Helps Researchers to Understand Lightning


Lightning flashes from a storm cloud to strike the ground. Such bolts represent only a small part of the overall phenomenon of lightning.

2020年6月3日星期三

Preparing the Perseverance Mars Rover to Collect Samples on the Red Planet


The samples Apollo 11 brought back to Earth from the Moon were humanity's first from another celestial body. The upcoming Perseverance rover mission will collect the first samples from another planet.

2020年6月2日星期二

Ice Melt Accelerates Regional Freshwater Depletion


A small glacier in the Arctic region of Norwegian archipelago Svalbard, as photographed by NASA's Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX).

2020年6月1日星期一

Demo-2: Launching Into History


On Saturday, May 30, 2020, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station.