卡西尼号的4年任务是探索这个环状星球。
Cassini was on a four-year mission to explore the ringed planet.
当时卡西尼号是在前往土星的途中。
在这张卡西尼号的照片中，土星环紧贴着新月形的土星。
A crescent Saturn appears nestled within encircling rings in this Cassini spacecraft image.
另一次引人注目的联珠发生在去年3月人类的土星探测器卡西尼号的视野中。
Another striking alignment occurred last March in the view of humanity's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft.
围绕土星和它的卫星运行的卡西尼号探测器证实了卫星外逸层的存在。
The presence of the moon’s exosphere was confirmed by instruments on the Cassini probe which orbits Saturn and its moons.
卡西尼号探测器从几十亿公里以外的太空将土星和其卫星的壮观影像不断传回地球来。
From a billion miles away, the Cassini spacecraft continues to send spectacular images of Saturn and its moons.
卡西尼号飞船用红外线在高出行星北纬度的有利位置调查土星的扩展环系统。
The Cassini spacecraft surveys Saturn's outstretched ring system in infrared from a vantage point high above the planet's northern latitudes.
卡西尼号1997年升空，在飞越了金星和木星以后于2004年抵达土星。
Cassini has been flying since 1997 and arrived at Saturn in 2004 after flybys of Earth, Venus and Jupiter.
这张未校准的照片拍摄于4月10日，在卡西尼号前一周掠过两颗卫星之后。
The above uncalibrated image was taken on April 10 after Cassini swooped by each moon the previous week.
其主要目的是利用太阳系中最大的一个的行星获得重力推动将卡西尼号弹向其最终目的地——土星。
The main purpose was to use the gravity of the largest planet in our solar system to slingshot Cassini towards Saturn, its ultimate destination.
6月21日公布的卡西尼号飞船所拍摄的一张照片里，两个土星的卫星形成了鲜明的对比。
Two of Saturn's moons present a sharp contrast in a picture snapped by the Cassini spacecraft and released June 21.
四月，绕土星运行的机器人卡西尼号土星探测器拍了这张横穿太阳系最有名的环的窄角照片。
In April, the robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn took this narrow-angle view looking across the Solar System's most famous rings.
如果真有那么多，这颗星球的表面将会被几米深的乙烷所覆盖，但是“卡西尼号”却什么也没发现。
If there had been, the moon would have been covered with an ocean of the stuff several meters deep and Cassini saw nothing of the kind.
泰坦星对卡西尼号牵引力的细微变化表明，该星球内部为冰和岩石的混合物，且没有明晰的岩石分界线。
Subtle differences in Titan's pull on Cassini suggest that the materials inside the moon are a mix of ice and rock with no clearly defined rocky layers.
就像本周麦凯在卡西尼号网站上发表的文章中所提到的“要想找到”确凿的生命迹象“，我们还有很多路要走。”
As McKay says in an essay posted to the Cassini website this week: "this is still a long way from 'evidence of life'."
上个月，在土星轨道上的宇宙飞船卡西尼号拍的这张照片，捕捉到土星著名的卫星中的两个，呈凸圆相位。
A view with two of the more famous moons of Saturn in gibbous phase was captured last month by the robot spacecraft Cassini now orbiting Saturn.
卡西尼号土星探测器最近发现了可能能够证明在冰冷的土星卫星土卫二的地下存在着地下海洋的确切的证据。
The Cassini spacecraft has found what may be the strongest evidence yet that Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus has an ocean beneath its icy surface.
卡西尼号将一张储存有签名的DVD带到了土星轨道上，凤凰号火星探测器将一张DVD带到了火星的北极。
The Cassini spacecraft brought a disk of signatures into orbit around Saturn.The Phoenix Mars Lander took DVD to Mars' north pole.
卡西尼号将一张储存有签名的DVD带到了土星轨道上，凤凰号火星探测器将一张DVD带到了火星的北极。
The Cassini spacecraft brought a disk of signatures into orbit around Saturn. The Phoenix Mars Lander took DVD to Mars' North Pole.
今年，卡西尼号的服役时间又被进一步延长至2017年，它将一直保持探索状态直至土星北半球的夏至开始。
This year, it was given another life extension until 2017 to keep exploring until Saturn’s northern hemisphere summer solstice.
在2004年的7月，美国宇航局的“卡西尼号”航天探测器进入到土星遥远的领域，这次它要永远呆在那里。
In July 2004, NASA's Cassini space probe entered Saturn's distant realm, this time to stay for good.
卡西尼号船载的摄像机组还可以连续70天拍摄风暴形成的过程，风暴在木星北磁极附近融合为一体并不断移动。
The imaging team was also able to amass 70-day movies of storms forming, merging and moving near Jupiter's north pole.
卡西尼号拍摄的图像还在北纬60度发现了一个以前从未见过的巨大的、深色椭圆形环状体，大小与木星的大红斑相同。
The Cassini images also revealed a never-before-seen large, dark oval around 60 degrees north latitude that rivaled Jupiter's Great Red Spot in size.
三个0.94，3.6和13厘米波长（Ka，X和S-波段）的同生无线电信号被从土星环中的卡西尼号飞船送往地球。
Three simultaneous radio signals of 0.94,3.6 and 13 centimeter wavelength (Ka-, X- and S-bands) were sent fromthe Cassini spacecraft through the rings to Earth.
议论开始于几周以前“卡西尼号”土星探测器科学小组发布的报告，“卡西尼”自2004年起就开始环绕监测土星以及其卫星。
The whispers began a few weeks ago, with reports coming from the team monitoring the Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn and barnstorming its moons since 2004.
起初没人觉得这颗大概直径30英里为冰川所覆盖的卫星有什么特别的。直到后来卡西尼号太空船目睹到水蒸汽喷泉从卫星表面喷涌而出。
Nobody had ever thought of this roughly 300-mile-wide icy satellite as anything special-until the Cassini spacecraft witnessed geysers of water vapor blowing out from its surface.
2010年3月29日美国宇航局公布了这张照片，它是由卡西尼号探测器于今年2月份飞过这颗卫星时，所拍摄到的几张照片拼合而成。
The combined picture, released March 29, 2010, is based on several shots taken by NASA's Cassini orbiter during its closest ever flyby of the tiny moon in February.
科学家们认为土卫二冰火山的活跃时间只占其寿命时间的1%到20%，幸运的是，卡西尼号飞越土卫二的时候正好赶上了喷发期。
Scientists believe the cryovolcanism on Enceladus has only been active during 1 to 20 percent of its existence. We’re glad Cassini caught it in an eruptive phase.
2010年5月，两组科学家都宣布，NASA的卡西尼号轨道飞行器探测发现，泰坦为氢和乙炔的化合提供了一处不同寻常的港湾。
In May 2010, two teams of scientists announced that NASA's Cassini orbiter showed Titan is harboring an unusual chemical dance party with hydrogen and acetylene.
2010年5月，两组科学家都宣布，NASA的卡西尼号轨道飞行器探测发现，泰坦为氢和乙炔的化合提供了一处不同寻常的港湾。
In May 2010, two teams of scientists announced that NASA's Cassini orbiter showed Titan is harboring an unusual chemical dance party with hydrogen and acetylene.
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