This day, 56 years ago, a remarkable photograph was taken. The photographer was a man who’d spent time in Nanjing as a 4 year old as war raged. The image came to be known as “Earthrise”; it kicked started the environmental movement.
56 年前的今天，拍摄了一张非凡的照片。摄影师四岁的时候曾在战争激烈的南京度过过一段时光。该图像后来被称为“地出”。它启动了环保运动。
The snapping of that first pic to show our entire world from afar in glorious technicolour also coincided with an important moment in Chinese history; the opening of the Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing. A bridge on one hand, a spacecraft on the other; united by two nations and a world war.
第一张用绚丽色彩从远处展示整个世界的照片的拍摄，也恰逢中国历史上的一个重要时刻；南京长江大桥通车。一方面是一座桥，另一方面是一艘宇宙飞船；由两个国家和一场世界大战联合起来。
Responsible for the photo was Willian Anders, one of the three astronauts aboard Apollo 8, the first crewed spaceship to make a voyage around the moon. The shutter on Anders’ modified Hasselblad camera snapped open and closed at 15:40 UST on 24 December, 1968, and history was made.
拍摄这张照片的是威廉·安德斯 (Willian Anders)，他是阿波罗 8 号上的三名宇航员之一，阿波罗 8 号是第一艘绕月航行的载人飞船。 1968 年 12 月 24 日美国标准时间 15 点 40 分，安德斯改装的哈苏相机的快门突然打开和关闭，创造了历史。
But what was young William doing in Nanjing that would later lead him to take that photo as a 35-year old pioneer of the American space program?
但年轻的威廉在南京做了什么，导致他后来以 35 岁的美国太空计划先驱的身份拍摄了这张照片呢？
Not faraway, the US Navy’s Yangtze River Patrol was on guard along the River to protect Western interests after attacks on American individuals and Chinese working for US firms.
不远处，美国个人和为美国公司工作的中国人遭到袭击后，美国海军长江巡逻队正在沿江巡逻，以保护西方利益。
Built in Shanghai and launched in 1927, the USS Panay had William’s father, Lt. Arthur Anders, for Executive Officer. But then, as the crew and civilians aboard watched the sacking of Nanjing under a bright red sky on 12 December, 1937, the Panay was dive bombed by Japanese aircraft. Three men died in the attack, while 43 sailors and five civilians were wounded.
班乃号航空母舰建于上海，于 1927 年下水，威廉的父亲阿瑟·安德斯中尉担任执行官。但随后，1937 年 12 月 12 日，当船上的船员和平民目睹南京在鲜红的天空下被洗劫时，班乃号遭到了日本飞机的俯冲轰炸。袭击造成 3 名男子死亡，43 名水手和 5 名平民受伤。
Historians will argue that this should have brought America in to the War, rather than it waiting to be attacked again at Pearl Harbour 4 years later. For the Anders family, however, it was the moment William’s father was hit in the throat by shrapnel. As KSL News Radio reveals, he was left unable to speak and gave the order to abandon ship by writing in pencil on blood-stained paper.
历史学家会争辩说，这应该让美国参战，而不是等待四年后在珍珠港再次遭到袭击。然而，对于安德斯一家来说，那是威廉的父亲被弹片击中喉咙的那一刻。据 KSL 新闻电台透露，他当时无法说话，于是用铅笔在沾满血迹的纸上书写，下达了弃船的命令。
The Panay quickly sank into the Yangtze’s depths and details of the wreck have never been forthcoming, but this publication’s research leads it to believe the ship’s location to be between the islet of Quan Zhou and the Yangtze’s northern bank, north of Jiangxin Zhou and southwest of that Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. The River at this point runs up to 50 metres deep.
班乃号很快沉入长江深处，沉船细节从未公布，但本刊物的研究使其相信该船的位置位于泉州岛和长江北岸之间，江心洲以北和南京长江大桥西南。此时河水深达 50 米。
That same day the Nanking Safety Zone was established, with young William Anders likely one of the first to be brought under its protection, before he and his mother fled by train to Guangzhou. After Hell had come and gone, the boy would go on to graduate from the US Naval Academy. He became a pilot, an astronaut and once again a part of history with the capturing of Earthrise.
同一天，南京安全区成立，年轻的威廉·安德斯可能是第一批受到保护的人之一，随后他和母亲乘火车逃往广州。地狱来了又去之后，这个男孩将从美国海军学院毕业。他成为一名飞行员、一名宇航员，并因拍摄《地出》而再次成为历史的一部分。
Anders then spoke on the photograph’s 50th anniversary, saying, “We set out to explore the moon and instead discovered the Earth”.
安德斯随后在这张照片诞生 50 周年之际发表讲话，说道：“我们原本打算探索月球，结果却发现了地球”。
For the photography enthusiasts interested in the details of Earthrise, NASA makes clear that, “The horizon, about 570 kilometres from the spacecraft, is near the eastern limb of the moon as viewed from Earth. Width of the view at the horizon is about 150 kilometres. On Earth… the sunset terminator crosses Africa”.
对于对地出细节感兴趣的摄影爱好者，NASA明确表示，“从地球上看，距离飞船约570公里的地平线靠近月球东缘。地平线的视野宽度约为150公里。在地球上……日落明界线穿过非洲”。
