10-07-20 领航宇航员 lead astronaut 美国航空航天管理局 NASA(The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) 逃逸塔 escape tower 天线 antenna 通信卫星 communication satellite 同步轨道卫星 geosynchronous satellite 拍摄和传送地球照片 capture and relay picture...
10-07-14 NASA's GOES Project has just released a movie of satellite imagery showing the life and times of 2010's only June hurricane. From birth to death, the GOES-13 satellite kept an eye on the life and times(当时的生活情形) of Hurricane Alex for two wee...
10-06-28 Germany's new radar satellite, TanDEM-X, has returned its first images. 德国的新式雷达卫星TanDEM-X,发回了第一组图像。 Choppy Indian Ocean waters (yellow) contrast with the calm Baie de Diego (blue) The spacecraft was launched from Kazakhstan on Mon...
10-06-27 Celia has exploded into a monster hurricane in the Eastern Pacific, and is now a Category 5 storm over open waters. NASA's Aqua(浅绿色) satellite captured an infrared(红外线的) image (that shows temperature) of Celia's clouds and clearly shows a...
10-06-14 NASA's Aqua(溶液,浅绿色) satellite flew over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, June 10 at 19:05 UTC (3:05 p.m. EDT) and the satellite's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( MODIS中分辨率成像光谱仪 ) instrument captured an image of the th...
10-06-10 South Korea is preparing to launch a rocket carrying a satellite into space, after an earlier attempt was scrapped over fire safety problems. 韩国将向外太空发射一枚载有卫星的火箭,此前的一次尝试因消防安全问题而取消。 The rocket has been partly built...
10-04-22 Venus Express has completed an 'aerodrag' campaign that used its solar wings as sails to catch faint wisps(小捆,小缕) of the planet's atmosphere. The test used the orbiter as an exquisitely(精巧地,精致地) accurate sensor to measure atmospheric...
10-04-16 This image, acquired today by ESA's Envisat satellite, shows the vast cloud of volcanic ash(火山灰) sweeping across the UK from the eruption(爆发,喷发) in Iceland, more than 1000 km away. Carried by winds high up in the atmosphere, the cloud of...
10-02-02 The intense public debate on how rapidly the Himalayan喜马拉雅山脉的 glaciers冰川 are retreating highlights the necessity for the constant monitoring of glaciers worldwide by satellites. Since glaciers are among the most reliable indicators指示器 of...
10-01-17 During the first three weeks in January, the latest in the series of Geostationary与地球旋转同步的 Operational Environmental Satellites also known as GOES-P is being processed and prepped for launch. Meanwhile, the first and second stages of the Del...