时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:火星生命


英语课

In 2001 a new NASA probe was launched. Called Odyssey 1, it was sent to Mars to carry out the most detailed 2 analysis ever of the planet’s surface. What it has discovered may be about to answer one of the great questions and solve one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries.

Are we alone in the universe? Or is there life on Mars?

Ever since people first looked up into the night sky, there’s been a question that has bothered us all. From the smallest children to the world’s greatest astronomers 3, all have wondered "Are we alone in the universe?”.

The question of life beyond comes to me strongest at night, looking up at the stars and looking at all those little points of light and wondering "This is a galaxy 4 full of life, or is this it?"

It’s the question that societies often have been asking over the ages. We really just wanna know how did we get here? Why do we exist? Are we the only people in the universe? Are we the only signs of life?

This search for life elsewhere in the universe is perhaps the greatest scientific quest of all. But so far most efforts have concentrated on just one planet.

Searching for life is, is a difficult job. You know, what we'd like to be able to do is travel to all these distant worlds and scoop 5 up samples. Unfortunately the worlds that we can/ travel to, or the other planets in our solar system and none of them are very good in terms of prospecting 6 for biology. The best one is probably Mars.

Mars, one of our nearest neighbors, just 60 million kilometers away.

The reason Mars is important because it’s close by. It's our nearest neighbor to earth. And we’d like to see if life is there because if we can find life in 2 places in our solar system we know that life isn’t unique here just on Earth. It’s much more likely that life fully 7 exists elsewhere, perhaps elsewhere in our solar system, perhaps in other solar systems, other parts of the universe.



1 odyssey
n.长途冒险旅行;一连串的冒险
  • The march to Travnik was the final stretch of a 16-hour odyssey.去特拉夫尼克的这段路是长达16小时艰险旅行的最后一程。
  • His odyssey of passion, friendship,love,and revenge was now finished.他的热情、友谊、爱情和复仇的漫长历程,到此结束了。
2 detailed
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。
3 astronomers
n.天文学者,天文学家( astronomer的名词复数 )
  • Astronomers can accurately foretell the date,time,and length of future eclipses. 天文学家能精确地预告未来日食月食的日期、时刻和时长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Astronomers used to ask why only Saturn has rings. 天文学家们过去一直感到奇怪,为什么只有土星有光环。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 galaxy
n.星系;银河系;一群(杰出或著名的人物)
  • The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
  • The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。
5 scoop
n.铲子,舀取,独家新闻;v.汲取,舀取,抢先登出
  • In the morning he must get his boy to scoop it out.早上一定得叫佣人把它剜出来。
  • Uh,one scoop of coffee and one scoop of chocolate for me.我要一勺咖啡的和一勺巧克力的。
6 prospecting
n.探矿
  • The prospecting team ploughed their way through the snow. 探险队排雪前进。
  • The prospecting team has traversed the length and breadth of the land. 勘探队踏遍了祖国的山山水水。
7 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
学英语单词
additional dynamic load
alkaline reflux gastritis
alpine stony desert
american cranberry bushes
angular process (mandible)
assentors
atencin
average costs of vehicle maintenance and repair
Axial Piston Pumps
boidinia granulata
breecher
businessy
carcinoses
chrysalides
column of Burdach
commensurators
console terminal character output
cost of investment
crystalline grain
DCAS (data collection and analysis system)
deterioration factor
DEUH
diisostearoyl ethylene titanate
disoperative
droning on
drop behind
Eile mit Weile
enitron
Etretin
extinctic
fibre optic transmission equipment
foisonable
foramen mandibular
fortain
game-changer
girlie swot
Haemosporea
head workman
heating substation
hydroxybutanoate
inductive probability
infraspinatus reflex
Initial margin requirement
intended marriage
interlanguages
Japanophobes
Jesher
kitas
landay
lens combination
loading jack
local automatically operated unit
logarithmicpaper
logging into
long term contract
Malin More
menthoides
mineralization potential
monoflagellated
mosquito craft
nail care preparation
natural rubber isomerization
necrocoleopterophilous
new style calendars
ocean going tanker
OS virtualization
paging system
pump up the volume
quality control cycle
quasi-transverse propagation
recolliding
reduced DFT algorithm
Rezi
right down someone's alley
riposte
scatterbrained
scheduled repair
scotophilia
semen foenigraeci
Shaowu
shibayama
Sierra Chica
SIHI
single phase three-wire connection
special order indicator
speed-up effcct
spherodial nuclear model
steam oil atomizer
steel-tapping hole
submarine situation chart
surface finishes
Symphysis manubriosternalis
tellurium bichloride
transmission mechanisms
travel(l)ing charge
uncompleted construction
volumizers
waldera
ware
warehousemen's itch
woodshifters
zygotic nucleus