但是天文学家辛苦分析这些观测金星凌日的探险活动的结果。
But astronomers laboured hard to analyse the results of these expeditions to observe Venus transits.
几个世纪以来，金星凌日吸引了探险家和天文学家们汇聚到地球的四个角落。
For centuries, transits of Venus have drawn explorers and astronomers alike to the four corners of the globe.
2004年6月，金星的投影穿越太阳表面，这是122年一遇的天象，被称为“凌日”。
June 2004 saw the first passage, known as a "transit", of the planet Venus across the face of the Sun in 122 years.
1677年11月，哈雷在南太平洋荒凉的圣赫勒拿岛上观测到了水星（最靠近太阳的行星）的凌日现象。
In November 1677, Halley observed a transit of the innermost planet, Mercury, from the desolate island of St Helena in the South Pacific.
勒让蒂乘坐一艘法国军舰横穿印度洋逃亡时看到了一次壮观的凌日现象，但船剧烈摇晃，使任何准确观测的尝试都以失败告终。
Fleeing on a French warship crossing the Indian Ocean, Le Gentil saw a wonderful transit, but the ship's pitching and rolling ruled out any attempt at making accurate observations.
那个数值与今天雷达测定的149,597,870公里相当接近，就当时来说准确度很合理，雷达在精度上已经取代了凌日和其他所有方法。
Reasonably accurate for the time, that is quite close to today's value of 149,597,870 km, determined by radar, which has now superseded transits and all other methods in accuracy.
但是这样的凌日现象已经为被证明可能是宇宙中最重要的突破之一的说法铺平了道路，这个说法即找到那些围绕其他恒星轨道公转的和地球大小相似的行星。
But such transits have paved the way for what might prove to be one of the most vital breakthroughs in the cosmos—detecting Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars.
正如希瑟·库珀和奈杰尔·亨贝斯特解释的那样，凌日帮助我们形成了对整个宇宙的看法。
Transits have helped shape our view of the whole Universe, as Heather Cooper and Nigel Henbest explain.
因此，2004年6月的金星凌日与其说是一个重要的科学事件，不如说是一个天文奇观。
June 2004's transit of Venus was thus more of an astronomical spectacle than a scientifically important event.
但有一个问题：和水星凌日不同的是，金星凌日是罕见的，大约每隔一百年会成对出现八年的时间。
But there was a problem: transits of Venus, unlike those of Mercury, are rare, occurring in pairs roughly eight years apart every hundred or so years.
但有个问题，金星凌日很难得。
这是因为这次的金星凌日不会经常发生。
这就是所谓的凌日行星。
从地球看去，行星的凌日的情况约为百分之一。
Viewed from Earth, planets transit their stars only about 1% the time.
那么2004年六月的金星凌日对你的影响如何呢？
事实上，凌日时间变化可以提供有关行星质量的信息。
In fact, such transit timing variations provide information on the masses of the planets.
由于这种格局下，只有六名金星凌日一直以来的发明的望远镜。
Due to this pattern, only six Venus transits have been seen since the invention of the telescope.
同时也标注了另一个日子，6月6号，这一天将发生金星凌日。
They also marked another date, June 6, the transit of Venus across the sun.
这些凌日现象是小日全食，形成于当行星穿过其母星和开普勒之间的光线时。
These transits are mini eclipses-the passage of the planet in question through the line of sight between its parent star and Kepler's telescope.
金星凌日也会对你如何表现自己与别人如何看待你产生一定影响。
The Venus Transit is also going to do a number things in terms of how you present yourself to others and how others see you.
可能由有较长轨道的行星引起的成百上千的闪光已被发现，但尚未证实是凌日。
Hundreds of flickers that might have been caused by planets with longer orbits have been seen, but have not yet been confirmed as transits.
到目前为止，在通过对超过1000颗恒星的光线观察中发现了类似凌日现象的黑点。
So far, it has seen transit-like dips in the light from more than 1, 000 stars.
金星凌日并不像日食那么壮观，日食是由月球通过地球和太阳中间造成的。
A transit of Venus is not nearly as spectacular as a solar eclipse, caused by the passage of the moon between Earth and the sun.
天文学家推断系外行星存在的手段有好几种，美国宇航局的开普勒项目使用的是凌日法。
While there are a number of different ways that astronomers infer the existence of exoplanets, NASA's Kepler mission USES what's known as the transit method.
因为金星凌日很难用肉眼看见，在人类历史上大部份的时期，人们都不知道有这样的事情。
Because a transit of Venus is barely visible to the naked eye, for most of history humans went about their lives oblivious to such events.
要让这颗行星的状态从“候选”到“证实”，“开普勒”小组必须确认三次“行星凌日”的过程。
The Kepler team had to wait for three passes of the planet before upping its status from "candidate" to "confirmed".
要让这颗行星的状态从“候选”到“证实”，“开普勒”小组必须确认三次“行星凌日”的过程。
The Kepler team had to wait for three passes of the planet before upping its status from "candidate" to "confirmed".
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