[:ja]【宇宙からの地球絶景】No.1175: オーストラリアのウーメラ砂漠🇦🇺[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.1175: Woomera, Australia🇦🇺[:]

Sammy 2020/12/09

[:ja]野口聡一宇宙飛行士がISSから撮影したオーストラリアのウーメラ砂漠です。

Credit: Soichi Noguchi, JAXA, NASA

探査機はやぶさ2のカプセルは日本時間12月6日にオーストラリアの上空で長い尾を引いた流れ星のような火球として観測され、地球に帰還したことが確認されました。はやぶさ2の再突入カプセルは、画像のウーメラ立入制限区域に着地。ウーメラ（Woomera）はサウスオーストラリア州の村です。元々は、1947年、軍用に世界最大の試験区域である127,000km2の敷地がウーメラ立入制限区域（Woomera Prohibited Area; WPA）が設定された事から始まり、そこでの試験サポートのための宿泊・生活のためにできた人工の村ですが、近年は観光や旅行の中継地としての役割も果たしています。地名の「ウーメラ」はアボリジニの投槍器に由来しています。

地上の様子はこちらです。

参考文献： Soichi Noguchi’s Tweet
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH

[Earthview Wonders] No.1175: Woomera, Australia🇦🇺

Astronaut Soichi Noguchi captured from ISS Woomera, Australia.

Credit: Soichi Noguchi, JAXA, NASA

Japanese sample return project Hayabusa2’s sample return capsule has landed in Woomera, Australia on Dec. 6, 2020. The craft returned not just asteroid surface material, but subsurface material as well, and will be met by Japanese scientists after completing its 6-year mission to the asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Hayabusa2 meanwhile used its remaining propellant to start an extended, 11 year astronomical mission. Woomera, officially Woomera Village, is a town located in the South Australia, 450km north of Adelaide. In common usage, “Woomera” also refers to the wider RAAF Woomera Range Complex (WRC), a large Australian Defence Force aerospace and systems testing range covering an area of approximately 122,000km2 operated by the Royal Australian Air Force.

The local scenery on the ground is as follows.

Reference: Soichi Noguchi’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.1175: Woomera, Australia🇦🇺

Astronaut Soichi Noguchi captured from ISS Woomera, Australia.

Credit: Soichi Noguchi, JAXA, NASA

Japanese sample return project Hayabusa2’s sample return capsule has landed in Woomera, Australia on Dec. 6, 2020. The craft returned not just asteroid surface material, but subsurface material as well, and will be met by Japanese scientists after completing its 6-year mission to the asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Hayabusa2 meanwhile used its remaining propellant to start an extended, 11 year astronomical mission. Woomera, officially Woomera Village, is a town located in the South Australia, 450km north of Adelaide. In common usage, “Woomera” also refers to the wider RAAF Woomera Range Complex (WRC), a large Australian Defence Force aerospace and systems testing range covering an area of approximately 122,000km2 operated by the Royal Australian Air Force.

The local scenery on the ground is as follows.

Reference: Soichi Noguchi’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:]