战神3号着陆点：火星重访
(原标题: Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited)
2024-03-23
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这张来自火星勘测轨道器的HiRISE相机的特写显示了阿奇达利亚平原南部风化的陨石坑和风吹沉积物。在标准的HiRISE图像颜色中，这是一个引人注目的蓝色阴影，对人眼来说，这一区域可能看起来是灰色或有点红色。但人类的眼睛从未凝视过这片地形，除非你算上安迪·威尔的科幻小说《火星人》中美国宇航局宇航员的眼睛。这部小说记录了马克·沃特尼（Mark Watney）的冒险经历，他是一名宇航员，被困在虚构的火星任务“战神3号”（Ares 3）着陆点，与这幅剪短的HiRISE框架的坐标相对应。在规模上，沃特尼在该地点的6米直径的栖息地大约是大陨石坑直径的1/10。当然，战神3号的着陆坐标仅在（现实生活中的）卡尔·萨根纪念站（1997年探路者号的着陆点）以北约800公里处。
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This close-up from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera shows weathered craters and windblown deposits in southern Acidalia Planitia. A striking shade of blue in standard HiRISE image colors, to the human eye the area would probably look grey or a little reddish. But human eyes have not gazed across this terrain, unless you count the eyes of NASA astronauts in the sci-fi novel, "The Martian", by Andy Weir. The novel chronicles the adventures of Mark Watney, an astronaut stranded at the fictional Mars mission Ares 3 landing site, corresponding to the coordinates of this cropped HiRISE frame. For scale, Watney's 6-meter-diameter habitat at the site would be about 1/10th the diameter of the large crater. Of course, the Ares 3 landing coordinates are only about 800 kilometers north of the (real life) Carl Sagan Memorial Station, the 1997 Pathfinder landing site.