On October31,1938the radio inadvertently warned the people of a Martian invasion of New Jersey.

1938年10月31日,电台漫不经心地警告人们说,火星人要侵入新泽西州。

Achieving goals is very important to a Martian , because it's the way for him to prove his competence and thus feel good about himself.

对他们而言,实现目标举足轻重,因为这能证明他们自身的能力,会让他们有良好的感觉。

The Martian year lasts 687 days.

火星年有687天.

The martian landscape is extremely varied

火星上的景象变化极大。

Most of the martian air consists of carbon dioxide CO, similar to conditions on Venus

火星上的空气大部分是由二氧化碳组成的,与金星的情况相似。

martian temperatures may seem almost inviting to the seasoned outdoors explorer, but the composition of the atmosphere leaves much to be desired from a human perspective

火星上的温度看起来可能对训练有素的户外勘探者有相当大的诱惑力,但从人类的观点看,大气成分还有许多欠缺。

The extremely thin martian air contributes to the mystery of whether there is life on Mars, either in the past or present

火星上极度稀薄的空气使火星上无论是过去还是现在是否有生命这一问题更加神秘化了。

Progress in Studies of Martian Life

火星生命研究的进展与前景

Any free radicals in martian soil could be taken as presumptive evidence of life there

火星土壤中的任何游离基将可用来推断火星存在生命。

This Martian custom is one of the reasons men instinctively offer solutions when a woman talks about her feelings or about her problems.

男人的这种习惯在一定程度上导致了他们倾听女人谈论自己的情感和困惑时,本能提供解决方案。

Talking about a problem on Mars is an invitation for advice. Another Martian feels honored by the opportunity. Automatically, he puts on his Mr. Fix-it hat, listens for a few beats, and then offers some jewels of advice.

男人谈论困难就是请求他人提供意见。被请求的人因此会颇感荣幸,并顺其自然地抒发感想,听对方诉说,然后提供宝贵的建议。

The reason is that almost all of the water lies trapped in the martian polar ice caps or frozen beneath the surface

其原因是几乎所有的水都蕴藏在火星南北两极的冰盖下或冻结在表层下面。

They drilled out samples of Martian earth

他们钻取了火星土壤的样品。

A study of martian geology is crucial toward revealing clues into the history of the Earth

研究火星地质对于揭示地球历史演变的蛛丝马迹是十分重要的。

A New Autonomous Navigation Method for Martian Rover Based on Celestial Observation

一种基于纯天文观测的火星车自主导航方法

Launched in 1996 by NASA, Pathfinder descended to the Martian surface in July 1997 using parachutes, rockets, and air bags.

由美国国家航空暨太空总署在1996年发射升空,探路者在1997年7月利用降落伞、火箭与气囊降落在火星表面。

Over the course of a full martian year, Surveyor will return an unprecedented amount of data regarding Mars' surface features, atmosphere, and magnetic properties

在整个火星年期间,勘测者号将发回前所未有的大量有关火星地貌、大气环境以及磁场特性的数据。

These facts mean that the martian day and night have about the same lengths as ours

这些事实说明,火星上的昼夜同我们的昼夜大致一样长。

This type of study will provide important background data that will help scientists in their search for martian life on future missions

这种研究将提供重要的背景材料,它们会有助于科学家们在未来的勘测工作中寻找火星上的生命。

Experiments designed to detect evidence of living organisms provided no convincing evidence of life on the surface. The orbiters transmitted photographs of large expanses of the Martian surface.

专为寻找火星上的生命迹象而设计的实验则未得肯定结果,轨道器向地球发回了火星广阔表面的照片。

||1:Curiosity's size makes getting it safely onto the Martian surface tricky.||2:Previous rovers have deployed parachutes to slow their descents, and have then crashed into the ground using airbags to cushion their impacts.||3:Curiosity is too massive for that approach to work.||4:Instead, NASA hopes to deposit it on Mars using a contraption it has dubbed a skycrane.

||1:"好奇号"的尺寸使之能在火星复杂表面安全着陆。||2:以前，漫游者打开降落伞减慢下降速度，在撞向地面时用安全气囊缓冲。||3:"好奇号"大到这样的方法不能起作用。||4:相反地，NASA希望利用一种精巧的被称为"天空起重机"的装置使其在火星着陆。

||1:“The Richest Man in Babylon”, now ranked tenth, began in 1926 as a series of pamphlets distributed by banks and insurance companies.||2:They used parables to illustrate such financial axioms as “Live on less than you earn” or “Make your gold work for you” and were updated in 2004, with modern English instead of the old-fashioned King James kind.||3:How about this one, Mr Martian : better a little caution than a great regret.

||1:1926由银行和保险公司联合发型的一系列名为《巴比伦王国最富有的人》（“The Richest Man in Babylon”）的小册子如今排行第十。||2:他们以寓言的形式阐述了类似“挣得多，花得少”或者“为自己找一份黄金工作”等金融定理。||3:该系列书籍在2004年得到更新出版，用现代英语代替了国王詹姆斯的古英语。

||1: The first of NASA's rovers, Sojourner, which reached Mars in 1997, was 65cm long and weighed (on Earth, where the gravitational pull is 2? times Mars's) 10kg. ||2: Spirit and Opportunity, its twin successors, were larger, at 1.6 metres and 170kg. ||3: Curiosity, by comparison, is a monster. ||4: At 3 metres and 900kg it is the size of a small car. ||5: It also uses different technology. The other three rovers were powered by solar panels. Curiosity is powered by plutonium. (Not a full-scale reactor, but a generator that turns the heat of radioactive decay into electrical energy.) ||6: This brings three advantages. First, it allows Curiosity to carry more power-hungry scientific instruments than previous rovers. Second, it permits the rover to work through the Martian winter. Third, it avoids the problem of dust accumulating on the solar panels, which gradually sapped the strength of its predecessors.

||1:1997年，NASA的火星漫游者"旅居者"到达火星，它长65厘米，重10千克（地球引力是火星的2.5倍）。||2:其继任者，双胞胎"勇气和机遇号"比它更大（1.6米、170千克）。||3:相比之下，"好奇号"就是个怪物。||4:其3米长、900公斤重的尺寸就像一部小汽车。||5:它也有不同的技术，之前漫游者由太阳能面板提供能量，"好奇号"由钚驱动（不完全是反应堆，而是一个将放射衰变产生的热能转换成电能的发电机）。||6:这有三点好处：1、比起之前的漫游者，它能让"好奇号"带上更多的能耗大的科学仪器；2、它允许漫游者在火星冬季保持运转。3、它能避免让前几个漫游者的能量逐渐损耗的太阳能面板积土问题。

||1: As with the other rovers, Curiosity's mother ship will rely on heat shields and air-resistance, and then on a parachute, to slow its arrival. ||2: But at an altitude of 1.6km a specially designed descent stage bearing the rover will drop away from this vehicle. The descent stage has eight rocket motors on its corners. These will slow its fall to a relatively sedate 0.75 metres a second. ||3: When it is about 20 metres above the surface, the rover will be lowered from it on wires and deposited gently onto the Martian landscape. ||4: The cables will then be cut with explosives, the descent stage will fly off and crash land elsewhere, and Curiosity will begin its mission.

||1:像其它几个漫游者一样，"好奇号"的母船将依靠隔热、耐大气摩擦的防护层，然后通过降落伞减速。||2:但在1600米高时，一个特别设计的背负着漫游者的下降台从母船脱落，下降台的四角有8个火箭发动机，这些发动机把速度降到相对缓慢的0.75米/秒。||3:离地约20米时，它将绑在线缆上的漫游者放下去，轻轻地在火星着陆。||4:之后这些线缆将通过爆破切断，下降台飞走并在其它地方坠毁，"好奇号"开始它的任务。

EARTH excepted, the most probed and prodded planet in the solar system is Mars. Besides the assortment of craft that have flown by it or gone into orbit around it, three robotic buggies equipped with cameras and scientific instruments have roamed the Martian surface on behalf of NASA, America's space agency, since 1997.

除了地球，火星是太阳系里被人类探索得最多、最让人感到刺激的行星。除了各种飞过它的以及进入它附近轨道的飞船外，从1997年开始，三个装配了相机和科学仪器的探险车已经代表美国太空机构NASA漫游了火星表面。

(Socializing Martian health care, perhaps? Building a birth-certificate printing press? )

（与火星医疗保健交流学习？还是建了个出生证打印社？）

"Only if you count watching Marvin the Martian , " Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the National Security Council, tells Danger Room.

“除非你真的想看火星人马文，”国家安全理事会发言人TomVietor这样对本栏目记者说。

"And then when you got tired of Earth, " Sam said, "you could fly to Mars and play soccer with some Martian dudes. "

“当你在地球上呆腻了，”萨姆说，“你可以飞到火星上，与火星上的帅哥踢足球。”

Curiosity's size makes getting it safely onto the Martian surface tricky.

“好奇”号体积庞大，这使其安全着陆火星的工作变得十分棘手。

"The ultimate proof is to take a video of a Martian bacteria. They should send a microscope - watch the bacteria move, " says Miller.

“最直接的证明是给火星细菌拍摄录像。他们应该把一个显微镜送上火星，观察细菌的运动，”米勒说。

The Martian

火星人

Martian soil

火星土壤

Martian mantle

火星幔

martian arroyos

火星旱谷

Martian channel

火星河床

Martian surface

火星表面

Martian ice cap

火星冰冠

cis-martian space

火地空间

Martian satellite

火卫

martian waterways

火星水系

Martian satellite

火星卫星

Martian cloud type

火星云型

Martian atmosphere

火星大气

Martian dust storm

火星尘暴

Martian wind system

火星风系

My Favorite Martian

失意无神火星人;外星人报到

Martian magnetosphere

火星磁层

Sojourner(Martian land rover)

索杰纳