這是第一張從外太空拍攝的地球照片

這是第一張從外太空拍攝的地球照片

The White Sands rocket, officially called V-2 No. 13, was basically a modified V-2 rocket that became the first man-made object to take a photograph of the Earth from outer space. It was launched on October 24, 1946 at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico, and the rocket reached a maximum altitude of 65-miles.

“白沙”火箭正式命名為“V-2 13號(hào)”，基本上是經(jīng)過改裝的“V-2”火箭，成為第一個(gè)從外層空間拍攝地球照片的人造物體。它于1946年10月24日在新墨西哥州白沙市的白沙導(dǎo)彈發(fā)射場(chǎng)發(fā)射，火箭最高飛行高度達(dá)到65英里。

The famous photographs were captured with a DeVry 35 mm black-and-white motion picture camera attached to the rocket. For those unfamiliar with the V-2, it was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine. It was developed during WW2 in Germany as a “vengeance weapon”, assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings against German cities.

這些著名的照片是用裝在火箭上的35毫米黑白攝影機(jī)拍攝的。對(duì)于那些不熟悉V-2的人來(lái)說，它是世界上第一枚遠(yuǎn)程彈道導(dǎo)彈，由液體火箭發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)驅(qū)動(dòng)。它是二戰(zhàn)期間在德國(guó)開發(fā)的一種“復(fù)仇武器”，被派去攻擊盟軍的城市，作為對(duì)盟軍轟炸德國(guó)城市的報(bào)復(fù)。