这是第一张从外太空拍摄的地球照片

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”火箭正式命名为“V-2 13号”，基本上是经过改装的“V-2”火箭，成为第一个从外层空间拍摄地球照片的人造物体。它于1946年10月24日在新墨西哥州白沙市的白沙导弹发射场发射，火箭最高飞行高度达到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.

这些著名的照片是用装在火箭上的35毫米黑白摄影机拍摄的。对于那些不熟悉V-2的人来说，它是世界上第一枚远程弹道导弹，由液体火箭发动机驱动。它是二战期间在德国开发的一种“复仇武器”，被派去攻击盟军的城市，作为对盟军轰炸德国城市的报复。