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“那帮自称叫“人类”的怪物就住在那个大亮点上” 2013-07-22 18:38:32


旁边那个小的叫什么“月亮” -- 两个外星人的对话


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Wow! NASA Probes See Earth & Moon from Saturn, Mercury (Photos)

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NASA has unveiled spectacular portraits of Earth and its moon from billions of miles away in images captured on Friday (July 19) and released today by the teams behind the agency's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn and its Messenger probe at Mercury.

In the photos from Saturn, Earth appears as a tiny pinprick of light amid the haunting rings and glowing sphere of Saturn, which Cassini has been orbiting since 2004. Though the picture doesn't show it, more than 20,000 people on Earth waved at Saturn at just the time the photo was taken, as NASA had coordinated a plan to involve as many Earthlings as possible in the portrait.

The cosmic picture took advantage of a rare total eclipse of the sun from Saturn, which allowed Cassini's sensitive cameras to image Earth without being damaged from looking directly toward the sun, which appears to lie very close to our planet from the perspective of Saturn. The photo shows Earth from a vantage point of 898 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers) away. [See the photos of Earth from Saturn and Mercury]

"We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19," Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said in a statement. "Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look-back photo of Earth." 

In Messenger's portrait, Earth and its moon are both easily visible, though each is just a point of light. The photo was taken from orbit around Mercury, 61 million miles (98 million kilometers) away.

"That images of our planet have been acquired on a single day from two distant solar system outposts reminds us of this nation's stunning technical accomplishments in planetary exploration," Messenger principal investigator Sean Solomon of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., said in a statement. "And because Mercury and Saturn are such different outcomes of planetary formation and evolution, these two images also highlight what is special about Earth. There's no place like home." 


These aren't the first noteworthy portraits of our home in the cosmos.

On December 7, 1972, the crew of the Apollo 17 mission took the first full-view photo of Earth from space as the astronauts zoomed toward the moon. The photo, which became known as "The Blue Marble," is one of the most famous pictures ever shot. The "Pale Blue Dot," captured by NASA's Voyager 1 probe in 1990 from a record distance of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from Earth, is another classic.

In its nine years at Saturn, Cassini imaged Earth several times. This occasion, however, was the first time Earth's residents had been notified to pose for their picture ahead of time, though, scientists said.

The idea was embraced by many Earthlings, such as Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of the private spaceflight firm Virgin Galactic. "Today we will all be photographed from a billion miles away: The Day The Earth Smiled," Branson wrote Friday on Twitter.

"It thrills me to no end that people all over the world took a break from their normal activities to go outside and celebrate the interplanetary salute between robot and maker that these images represent," Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo., said in a statement. "The whole event underscores for me our 'coming of age' as planetary explorers." 

The Cassini mission launched in 1997 and arrived at the ringed planet in July 2004. It is expected to continue studying Saturn and its moons until 2017, when it will end its mission by crashing into Saturn's atmosphere.

Messenger was launched in August 2004 and in March 2011 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.

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作者:Pascal 留言时间:2015-01-20 14:41:46
见过两亿美元现钞(墨西哥毒贩囤积)堆起来有多高、多厚、多大一片的照片,
由此可以推断20亿、200亿、2000亿美元摞起来有多高;20,000、200,000、
2,000,000、20,000,000亿 ...... 呢?想象起来,就很困难了。

眺望一片山脉、江河、海洋、荒野,好像可以借助纪录片电脑合成的图像,
可以往回推想,百万、千万、亿万年时间以前的样子;

唯有距离,似乎无法想象,千万、亿万公里的长度,是什么样子?

It thrills me to no end that ... 英文字字像中文一样,想想都令人
无尽地战栗:14亿公里之外看地球!差不多是地球至太阳1.48-1.52亿公里距离
的10倍 ( 1.5亿除以光速30万 = 500秒,再除以60秒 = 8.33分钟,照射到
地球上的阳光,一路直行,要走8分钟)。怎么想象也想不出来14亿公里之遥,
是个什么感觉。1990年,旅行者1号拍摄地球照片的距离,就更别说了,想想
都要昏过去了 —— 60 亿公里 !

就喜欢这样角度地看地球、看人类、看国家、民族、个人,看手中忙活的不论是
什么的那点儿事儿 !

谢谢兔野君分享 !第一次看到,永远不会磨灭。
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