2026年4月5日 / 美国东部时间下午1:50 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
美国国家航空航天局（NASA）阿尔忒弥斯II号任务的机组人员于周六，也就是宇航员登月之旅的第四天，拍摄了一张月球背面的新照片。
NASA于周日公布了这张照片。根据该机构的描述，照片中的月球呈倒置状态，南极朝上，露出了部分月球背面。NASA称，在这张最新照片中，东方海盆地——一个从地球上难以观测到的巨大陨石坑——位于月球右侧边缘，并补充道，阿尔忒弥斯II号此次飞行是人类首次完整观测到该盆地。
东方海盆地将成为猎户座飞船四名机组人员的持续研究对象，这四名宇航员分别是指挥官里德·怀斯曼、飞行员维克多·格洛弗以及任务专家克里斯蒂娜·科克和杰里米·汉森。
阿尔忒弥斯II号机组在登月飞行第4天拍摄的月球背面新图像。NASA
“阿尔忒弥斯II号机组将在接近月球期间以及整个月球飞越阶段，从多个角度持续观测东方海盆地，”NASA表示。该机构还指出，该盆地可作为“对比水星到冥王星等岩质天体上其他撞击坑的基准参照”。
阿尔忒弥斯II号任务于上周从佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角发射升空，这是50多年前阿波罗计划以来首次载人登月飞行。本次任务属于测试飞行，旨在为未来让宇航员重返月球的任务奠定基础。
在周日播出的《与玛格丽特·布伦南直面国家》节目中，NASA局长贾里德·艾萨克曼强调，目前收集数据观测结果是该任务的首要目标。
“我们希望尽可能多地收集相关数据，”他说。“当然，还有各类科学实验和月球观测项目，但尽可能多地了解猎户座飞船至关重要，因为阿尔忒弥斯III号任务还有一年时间就要执行了。”
据NASA消息，周日时阿尔忒弥斯II号距离月球约6.4万英里。美国东部时间中午12:30前不久发布的任务状态更新显示，机组人员刚刚以希洛·格林的《工人阶级英雄（工作）》作为起床曲，开启了飞行的第五天。报道称，任务控制中心的一名飞行控制员在起床音乐响起时“短暂地在椅子上跳舞”。
周日晚些时候，阿尔忒弥斯II号将进入月球引力影响球，也就是月球引力超过地球引力的临界点。机组人员将用一整天的时间测试航天服并开展其他飞行测试，继续向月球进发。NASA将于周日晚间在约翰逊航天中心举办关于本次任务的电视简报会。
迈尔斯·多兰为本报道撰稿。
Artemis II crew capture new photo of far side of the moon
April 5, 2026 / 1:50 PM EDT / CBS News
The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission captured a new photo of the far side of the moon on Saturday, on the fourth day of the astronauts’ lunar journey.
NASA released the image on Sunday. In it, the moon is oriented upside down, with its South Pole facing upward and parts of its far side visible, according to the agency’s description. The Orientale basin, a massive crater that’s hard to see from Earth, is situated along the right edge of the moon in the latest picture, NASA said, adding that the Artemis II voyage marks the first time humans have ever seen the basin in full.
The Orientale basin will be an ongoing subject of study for members of the Orion spacecraft’s four-person crew, which includes commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen.
The Artemis II crew captured a new image of the far side of the moon on Day 4 of their lunar flight. NASA
“The Artemis II crew will continue to observe Orientale from multiple angles as they approach the Moon and throughout the lunar flyby,” said NASA. The agency noted how the basin can be “used as a baseline to compare other impact craters on rocky worlds from Mercury to Pluto.”
The Artemis II mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, last week, in the first piloted moonshot since the Apollo program more than 50 years ago. It is meant to be a test flight that sets the stage for future missions that return astronauts to the moon.
On “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” Sunday, NASA AdministratorJared Isaacman underscored that collecting data observations and data is the mission’s primary goal right now.
“We want to gather as much data as we possibly can for that,” he said. “Of course, there’s various science experiments, there’s lunar observations, but learning as much as we can about Orion is critically important, because Artemis III is a year away.”
Artemis II was about 64,000 miles from the Moon on Sunday, according to NASA. A mission status update shared just before 12:30 p.m. ET said the crew had recently woken up for the fifth day of their flight to the song “Working Class Heroes (Work)” by CeeLo Green. A flight controller sitting in mission control “was seen briefly dancing in his chair” to the wakeup call, it said.
Later on Sunday, Artemis II is due to enter the lunar sphere of influence, which is the point where the pull of the Moon’s gravity becomes stronger than the pull of the Earth’s. The crew will have a full day to test their spacesuits and conduct other flight tests as they move toward the moon. NASA will host a televised briefing about the mission Sunday evening from the Johnson Space Center.
Miles Doran contributed to this report.
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