“航空探测器5”无人机已经开发了两年。
The Aerosonde Mark 5 aircraft has been under development for two years.
美国宇航局艾姆斯研究中心的主管西蒙·皮特·沃登说：“从地球表面拾掇陨石可比发送航空探测器去太空搜集样本省钱多了。”
“It’s a lot cheaper to go pick it up on the ground than to send a space probe to go get it, ” says the director of the NASA Ames Research Center, Simon “Pete” Worden.
美国国家航空航天局正在开发一系列的机器人探测器，且将会获得巨大的收益。
NASA is developing a series of robotic probes that will get the most bang from a buck.
美国国家航空航天希望通过分析“凤凰”号火星探测器着陆的红色荒原土壤中所含的冰，找到支持这一理论的证据。
NASA hopes to find evidence for such theories by analyzing the ice contained in the soil of the red wasteland that the Mars Phoenix Lander touched down on.
美国国家航空航天局(NASA)的信使号水星探测器成为有史以来第一个到达水星轨道的空间飞行器。
NASA's Mercury probe Messenger has become the first spacecraft to go into orbit around the closest planet to the Sun.
随着一级空火箭和一个月球探测器分别撞击到月球表面不同的两座环形山上，美国航空航天局（NASA）的大型“双重撞月”行动在今天早晨取得了成功。
NASA's double sledgehammer shot to the moon succeeded early this morning when an empty rocket stage and a lunar probe each crashed into separate craters.
现在，安装于国家航空和宇航局(NASA)深度撞击号太空船以及印度第一个月球任务——月球初航探测器上的设备所获得的光谱提供了证实。
Confirmation has now come in the form of spectra taken by instruments aboard NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft and Chandrayaan-I, India's first mission to the moon.
根据美国航空航天局勇气号探测器对矿物质的分析，火星上有些地方——比如古瑟夫撞击坑——和地球上的碱湖差不多。
There are places on Mars, like Gusev Crater, which resemble soda lakes on Earth, according to an analysis of minerals by NASA's Spirit rover.
然后，航空局计划在2018年发送一个巨大的探测器到这个红色的星球上——可能目标在于其中一个非常引人关注的甲烷源，并将对其进行深入调查。
Then, in 2018, the agencies plan to send a single large rover to the Red Planet - perhaps targeted at one of the most interesting sources of methane to investigate it further.
但美国航天航空局希望这个望远镜格外敏感的探测器会探测到与地球更像的世界。
But the US space agency (Nasa) hopes that the telescope's extraordinarily sensitive detectors will lead it to worlds ever more like our own.
本周二早上，美国航天航空局发射的“信使”号探测器对水星表面进行了拍摄。
On Tuesday morning, NASA's Mercury Messenger took this photograph of the surface of Mercury.
在2003年，美国航空航天局的威尔金森微波各向异性探测器绘制出了一幅空前详细的早期微波天空的地图，也是第一张完整的地图。
In 2003 NASA's Wilkinson microwave Anisotropy Probe produced the first full map of the early microwave sky in unprecedented detail.
美国国家航空航天局的“机遇号”火星探测器于一月份在火星上着陆。
NASA's Mars detector, Opportunity, succeeded in finding signs that water once existed on the planet.
不幸的是，美国国家航空和宇宙航行局还没有近期发射穿过冰层的探测器的现行计划。
Unfortunately, NASA has no current plans to send a probe crashing through the ice anytime soon.
美国航空航天局的星际边界探测器第一次探测结果显示了我们太阳系边缘出乎意料的特征。
The first results from Nasa's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (Ibex) spacecraft have shown unexpected features at our Solar System's edge.
在美国航空与太空总署的机遇机器人探测器开始探究火星后不久，它发现了矿物，研究者说它的岩石是湿的温暖历史的证据。
Soon after NASA's robotic rover Opportunity began exploring Mars, it found minerals and rocks that its handlers said were evidence of a warm, wet history.
他补充道，美国国家航空航天局稍后可以把这些40年前的影像同新探测器收集到的影像相比较。
NASA could later compare the 40-year-old images with those the new probes will gather, he added.
研究者说，上一次，这个火山口被国家航空和宇航局的水手10探测器拍到过，而“信使号”上的照相机把它观察的前所未有的清晰。
While the crater was last seen by NASA'sMariner 10 probe, MESSENGER's camera observed it with unprecedented detail, researchers said.
烟雾探测器、聚四氟乙烯不沾性涂料、无绳式电动工具，以及各种各样的防护衣，都是利用美国国家航空和航天局的技术开发而成的。
Smoke detectors, Teflon non-stick coating, cordless power tools and a variety of protective clothing have all been developed using NASA technology.
美国航空航天局“勇气号”探测器登陆火星已有五年，这个六轮的地质探测机器人还有他的好兄弟“机会号”仍在继续工作。
Five years after the NASA rover Spirit landed on Mars, the six-wheeled robotic geologist and its twin Opportunity are still on the job.
美国航空航天局“勇气号”探测器登陆火星已有五年，这个六轮的地质探测机器人还有他的好兄弟“机会号”仍在继续工作。
Five years after the NASA rover Spirit landed on Mars, the six-wheeled robotic geologist and its twin Opportunity are still on the job.
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