1969 年7 月20 日：人类第一次登陆月球

 自20 世纪50 年代苏联发射全球第一枚人造卫星史泼尼克号(Sputnik)起,美国就一直对太空情有独钟。1961 年5 月,肯尼迪总统宣布要接受挑战,并公开保证要在20 世纪60 年代结束前让人类登陆月球,此举抓住了美国国人的共同想象力,激发他们支持雄心勃勃的阿波罗月球登陆计划,终于在1969 年达成了肯尼迪当年的愿景：人类第一次登陆月球。     

Identification of Radial Distance of Plasma Dispersionless Injection Boundary from the Injection Source

Measurements of energetic particles obtained by the two geosynchronous satellites （1991-080 and LANL-97A） are performed to investigate the plasma injection boundary and source region during the magnetospheric substorms. The measurement method is developed to allow remote sensing of the plasma injection time and the radial distance of injection boundaries by using measured energy dispersion and modelling particle drifts within the Volland-Stern electric field and the dipole magnetic field model. The radial distance of the injection boundary deduced from a dispersion event observed by the LANL-97A satellite on 14 June 1998 is 7.1RE, and the injection time agrees well with the substorm onset time identified by the Polar Ultraviolet Imager. The method has been applied to an event happened at 22.9 UT on 11 March 1998, when both the satellites （1991-080 and LANL-97A） observed the dispersionless character. The results indicate that the radial distance of injection source locates at 8.1RE at magnetotail, and particles move earthward from magnetotail into inner magnetosphere at 22.5 UT.     

Actual Tropical Waves Identified by the Wavenumber-Frequency Spectrum Analysis during Boreal Summer

Based on daily satellite-observed outgoing longwave radiation （OLR） data, the tropical intraseasonal oscillation （ISO） associated with the Asian summer monsoon is found to be dominant during the 2005 summer. Such an ISO along with other tropical waves are identified using a wavenumber-frequency spectrum analysis. Some of Significant spectral peaks coincide well with the dispersion curves of the equatorially trapped wave modes from shallow＇water theory, with various equivalent depths of 12-200 m, suggesting that actual tropical waves can be detected from observational data. Although the formation mechanism of the ISO is more complicated than those of other tropical waves with higher frequencies, significant spectral peaks that correspond to the ISO with a period of 30-60 days distinctly appear in the OLR spectra. The selective wavenumber-frequency filtering of OLR data is thus performed to isolate the ISO, Kelvin and equatoriai Rossby waves, and the properties and signatures of such tropical waves that control tropical atmospheric variability for the 2005 summer are clearly identified.