Copyright:Jeff Dai
原文:
Fans of planet Earth probably recognize its highest mountain, the Himalayan Mount Everest, on the left in this 3-panel skyscape of The World at Night. Shrouded in cloud Everest’s peak is at 8,848 meters (29,029 feet) elevation above sea level. In the middle panel, stars trail above volcanic Mauna Kea forming part of the island of Hawaii. Festooned with astronomical observatories, its summit lies a mere 4,168 meters above sea level. Still, measured from its base starting below the ocean’s surface, Mauna Kea is over 10,000 meters tall, making it Earth’s tallest mountain from base to summit. At right, beneath the arc of the Milky Way is the Andean mountain Chimborazo in Ecuador. The highest equatorial mountain, the Chimborazo volcano’s peak elevation is 6,268 meters above sea level. But rotating planet Earth is a flattened sphere (oblate spheroid) in shape, its equatorial diameter greater than its diameter measured pole to pole. Sitting nearly on top of Earth’s greatest equatorial bulge, Chimborazo’s peak is the farthest point on the planet’s surface from the center, over 2,000 meters farther from the center of the Earth than Everest’s peak. That makes Chimborazo’s summit the place on Earth’s surface closest to the stars.
中文翻譯:
🌌🌍 喜愛地球的朋友們可能都認識位於左側的最高峰——喜馬拉雅山的珠穆朗瑪峰。被雲霧籠罩的珠穆朗瑪峰峰高8,848米（29,029英尺），是海平面之上最高的山。在中間的面板，星星在火山馬納基亞上方劃出軌跡，馬納基亞是夏威夷的一部分。雖然其峰頂高度僅有4,168米，但若從海洋底部算起，馬納基亞的總高度超過10,000米，成為從基底到峰頂的最高山。在右側，在銀河系的拱形下是厄瓜多爾的高山——奇姆博拉索。作為赤道附近的最高山，奇姆博拉索火山的峰高為6,268米。由於地球是個扁平的球體（橢圓球體），赤道的直徑比極地的直徑大。因此，奇姆博拉索的峰位於地球最大的赤道隆起之上，使其幾乎是離地球中心最遠的地點，比珠穆朗瑪峰的峰高出超過2,000米，這使得奇姆博拉索的峰成為地球表面最接近星星的地方。
#珠穆朗瑪峰 #馬納基亞 #奇姆博拉索 #最高山 #地球之美 #銀河之下 #探索宇宙 #自然奇觀 #星空觀賞
來源:NASA每日圖片
