Copyright:
National Space Society
原文:
In three weeks, the robotic New Horizons spacecraft will reach Pluto. As the featured video makes clear, though, humanity has been on an unprecedented epoch of robotic exploration of our Solar System’s planets for the past half century. The video highlights artistic illustrations of Mariner 2 flying by Venus in 1962, Mariner 4 flying past Mars in 1965, Pioneer 10 flying past Jupiter in 1973, Mariner 10 flying past Mercury in 1974, Pioneer 11 flying past Saturn in 1979, and Voyager 2 flying past Uranus in 1986 and then Neptune in 1989. Next is a hypothetical sequence depicting New Horizons flying past Pluto next month. Assuming things work as planned, dwarf planet Pluto will then become the farthest world yet explored by humans. Of course, these Pluto illustrations are only a guess. How Pluto and its moons will really look may be a mixture of familiar things, such as craters, and unfamiliar things, such as �
中文翻譯:
在未來三個星期,機器人探測器新視野號(New Horizons)將抵達冥王星(Pluto)。如視頻所示,人類在過去半個世紀內進入了一個前所未有的太陽系機器人探索時代。視頻中突顯了藝術插圖,包括1962年小行星2號(Mariner 2)飛過金星(Venus),1965年小行星4號(Mariner 4)飛越火星(Mars),1973年先驅10號(Pioneer 10)飛越木星(Jupiter),1974年小行星10號(Mariner 10)飛過水星(Mercury),1979年先驅11號(Pioneer 11)飛過土星(Saturn),以及1986年和1989年雙子星2號(Voyager 2)飛過天王星(Uranus)和海王星(Neptune)。接下來是一個假想序列,描繪了新視野號下個月飛越冥王星的場景。如果一切如預期進行,這個矮行星冥王星將成為人類探索的最遙遠天體。當然,這些冥王星的插圖只是一個猜想。冥王星及其衛星將如何真正展現,或許會是一種熟悉的景象,例如隕石坑,還有一些不為人知的奇特景象,例如……
#新視野號 #冥王星 #太陽系探索 #機器人探測 #人類的偉大探索 #天文學 #太空 #NASA #太空探測 #未來探索
來源:NASA每日圖片