一架小型飞机从一个偏远的南极科考站出发，英勇地执行了救援任务。随后载着两名生病的美籍工作人员，于周三晚间安全抵达智利。

A small plane with two sick U.S. workers arrived safely in Chile late Wednesday after leaving Antarctica in a daring rescue mission from a remote South Pole research station.

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2009年十月，LCROSS执行了撞月任务。 科学家经过分析，在月球南极一座环形山找到了水存在的直接证据。

The LCROSS mission –which sent a piece of a spacecraft crashing into the moon in October of 2009 –found direct evidence of water in a crater at the moon’s south pole.

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首颗担任绘制二氧化碳分布图任务的美国航天航空局的卫星，在今天早些时候发射时遇到技术困难，之后在南极洲附近海域中坠毁。

Nasa's pioneering satellite, designed to map carbon dioxide concentrations, has crashed into the ocean near Antarctica after running into technical difficulties during launch earlier today.

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