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美国飞船历史性登陆小行星

 Amber看世界 2021-05-21

New images taken by the OSIRIS-REx mission show the historic first touchdown of a NASA spacecraft on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. 

奥西里斯-雷克斯任务拍摄的新图像显示,美国宇航局的航天器历史性地首次着陆近地小行星本努。

The spacecraft collected a sample that will be returned to Earth in 2023.

探测器收集的样本将于2023年返回地球。

In the images, which were stitched together to show the spacecraft touching down, the spacecraft's robotic arm appeared to crush some of the porous rocks on the surface. 

在这些拼接在一起显示飞船着陆的图像中,飞船的机械手臂似乎粉碎了表面上的一些多孔岩石。

A nitrogen gas bottle fired on the surface appeared to stir up a substantial amount of material in a "rubble shower." 

一个氮气瓶在这个星体表面发生了爆炸,似乎激起了大量的“碎石雨”。

The spacecraft then spent five seconds collecting that material before backing away.

然后飞船在后退之前花了5秒钟收集这些物质。

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is in "good health" after the event which occurred on Tuesday, according to the mission's team. 

“欧西里斯-雷克斯”号探测小组称,“欧西里斯-雷克斯”号探测器在周二的撞击事件后“运行状况良好”。

Data and images were sent back by the spacecraft overnight and shared by the agency on Wednesday.

数据和图像在夜间由探测器发回,并于周三由美国航空航天局进行了分享。

Data from the spacecraft shows it touched down within 3 feet of the targeted location -- all while the spacecraft autonomously worked through commands sent ahead of time, using its advanced navigation system to help it land without assistance from Earth due to a 18.5-minute communication delay.

来自航天器的数据显示,它在距离目标位置不到3英尺的地方着陆,与此同时,由于18.5分钟的通信延迟,航天器利用其先进的导航系统在没有地球协助的情况下自动执行了提前发送的命令。

Although all of the data sent back by the spacecraft so far indicates that everything happened as planned during the "Touch-and-Go" event, called TAG, it will take the mission teams about a week to determine how much of a sample was collected by the spacecraft.

尽管到目前为止,探测器发回的所有数据都表明,在这次被称为TAG的“接触-行动”事件中,一切都按计划进行,但任务团队将花费大约一周的时间来确定探测器收集了多少样本。

The required amount for the sample is about 60 grams -- about a full-size candy bar -- but the capsule can hold up to 2 kilograms of material from the asteroid's surface.

样品所需的重量约为60克,相当于一个标准大小的糖果棒,但该飞船最多能容纳来自小行星表面的2公斤物质。

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