美航天局要冷却超级火山

• 作 者: 戴维·考克斯
• 出 处: 科学大观园
• 发表日期: 2017年22期

在美国黄石国家公园平静的表面之下,巨大的岩浆房正在沉睡。这里的间歇泉和热泉因这一岩浆房而存在,但对美国国家航空航天局的科学家们来说,它也是已知的对人类文明最大的威胁之一:一座潜在的超级火山。加州理工学院美国国家航空航天局喷气推进实验室的布赖恩·威尔科克斯解释说:“我是美国国家航空航天局行星防御咨询委员会的一名成员,该机构负责研究如何抵御小行星和彗星的威胁。在那项研究中我得出的结论是,超

Under the calm surface of the Yellowstone National Park in the United States, the huge magma chamber is asleep. The geysers and hot springs here exist because of this magma chamber, but to NASA scientists it is also known to be one of the biggest threats to human civilization: a potential super volcano. Brian Wilcox, of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology explains: ”I am a member of the NASA Planetary Defense Advisory Committee, which is responsible for studying how to resist small The threat of planets and comets. In my study I came to the conclusion that hyper