And preliminary work is underway for joint NASA-European Space Agency probes of Europa and Titan, moons of Jupiter and Saturn with conditions that might support life.
初步工作是对于欧罗巴和泰坦的共同NASA -欧洲航天署探查进行中,岁星的卫星和有可以撑持生命的条件的土星。
But he says it may not be possible to distinguish between biological and non-biological explanations without additional missions to Titan.
但他说:没有另外的对“提坦”的探索,区别生物和非生物解释是不太可能的。
The scientists found that Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is covered with puddles of liquid methane, which give rise to a fog that's as thick as pea soup -- and smells a whole lot worse.
在土星最大的卫星土卫六上,科学家们发现其表面的布满液态甲烷的积洼,这些甲烷会造成有如豌豆汤一样的浓雾,而且气味更是糟到家了!
Some researchers think that Titan, with its thick atmosphere and lakes of liquid methane, is the likeliest spot to find extraterrestrial life in our solar system.
一些研究人员认为,拥有厚厚大气层和液态甲烷湖的“泰坦”是太阳系内最有可能发现地外生命的天体。
This would result in a lack of acetylene on Titan and a depletion of hydrogen close to the moon's surface, where the microbes would live, they said.
他们说:这可能造成“提坦”卫星上乙炔的缺失和靠近卫星表面氢的耗尽,那里是微生物生活之处。
The planet was only just beginning to come into focus, in the metaphorical sense: The Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens had just recently revealed Saturn's rings and its first known moon, Titan.
在荷兰天文学家克里斯蒂安·惠更斯发现土星环以及第一颗已知土星卫星——土卫六“泰坦”之后,这颗行星逐渐成为天文学家的关注焦点。
Titan Arum is coveted by collectors and plant enthusiasts around the world because of its strange blooming patterns.
泰坦魔芋的开花方式很奇特,因而世界各地的收藏家和植物爱好者都渴望收藏这种植物。
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has numerous lakes and seas.
泰坦,这颗土星最大的卫星,拥有众多的湖泊和海洋。
The methane signal is similar to those that have been observed in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn and one of its moons, Titan.
该甲烷信号类似于从木星、土星和土卫六泰坦的大气层中探测到的甲烷信号。
But the new gravity data suggest that Titan and Ganymede had very different evolutionary histories.
但最新的引力数据却显示,泰坦星和木卫三经历了完全不同的演化历史。
Titan, with a thick atmosphere and a bizarro-world form of weather featuring toxic winds and hydrocarbon rain, is home to a mix of complex chemistry, complete with organic molecules.
土卫六拥有浓厚的大气层和疯狂世界似的气候特征:有毒的风和由碳氢化合物组成的雨水。同时,土卫六海充满着各种复杂的化学成份和有机分子。
Every morning I download and process that data to determine the amount of cloud cover on Titan. The result is that I get a daily weather report for Titan.
每天早晨,我下载并处理那些数据,以便推算出泰坦上的云层覆盖量。
The others are Earth and Saturn's giant moon, Titan.
另外两颗是地球和土卫六。
The e-tail titan prospered by continuing to offer low prices and superb customer service in hard times.
这家网上零售巨人因在困难时期仍然奉行低价政策和提供优质客户服务而兴盛。
Similarly astute was India's Titan Industries, which has increased its share of India's wristwatch market despite the entry of foreign brands such as Timex and Swatch.
印度的TitanIndustries公司有着相似的机敏,面临国外品牌Timex和Swatch的进军,它对印度手表市场的占有率依然能够增长。
Lorenz and colleagues calculated the amount of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan using radar data gathered from the orbiting Cassini spacecraft.
Lorenz和同事利用轨道环绕飞船Cassini号上收集的雷达数据计算了泰坦上的液态烃的含量。
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。
Collection devices are connected directly to the air guard's workstations and transferred to the Titan storage solution for analysis, and then data is archived to tape.
搜集设备直接联接到空中防卫的工作站,并传送到Titan存储方案以进行分析并在随后将数据存入磁带。
In 2005, the Huygens probe landed on Titan and gave humanity its first view of its unusual surface.
2005年,惠更斯号探测器着陆土卫六,使人类第一次看到了其不寻常的表面。
On Titan, methane forms clouds and maybe even rain.
在土卫六上,甲烷可以形成云甚至降雨。
Titan was a major focus of the mission all along, since it's bigger than the planet Mercury and the only moon massive enough to have a significant atmosphere.
土卫六一直以来都是这项探测任务的主要聚焦点,因其体积比水星还要大,是唯一一颗拥有浓密大气层的卫星。
For botanists, it doesn't get more exciting than this - after 75 years, the Titan Arum plant has unfurled its leaves and is in full bloom.
没有什么能比这个消息更让植物学家感到兴奋了。在历经75年的生长以后,这株泰坦魔芋终于绽放出花朵。
The scientists found that Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is covered with puddles of liquid methane, which give rise to a fog that’s as thick as pea soup—and smells a whole lot worse.
科学家们发现,在土星最大的这颗卫星上,其凹凸不平的表面布满了液态的甲烷,而这些甲烷又升腾起比豌豆汤还黏稠的雾气,当然,它的味道更是糟糕至极。
In 2005 the robotic Huygens probe landed on Titan, Saturn's enigmatic moon, and sent back the first ever images from beneath Titan's thick cloud layers.
2005年惠更斯号探测机器人着陆土卫六(泰坦)——土星谜一样的卫星,从土卫六厚厚的云层下面发回了第一张照片。
The shortish and baldish former gold salesman is about as far from the popular image of a Wall Street titan as you can get.
这位前“黄金推销员”个头不高,有些谢顶,远非你所想象的那种受欢迎的华尔街巨头。
Vessels targeted as a result of this kind of intelligence included the Greek cargo ship Titan, the Turkish merchant ship Karagol and the Spanish trawler Felipe Ruano.
由于这种情报工作的结果,船队中包手希腊货船“太阳号”,土耳其商船“卡拉沟号”,西班牙拖网渔船“阿诺号”成为海盗的目标。
Vessels targeted as a result of this kind of intelligence included the Greek cargo ship Titan, the Turkish merchant ship Karagol and the Spanish trawler Felipe Ruano.
由于这种情报工作的结果,船队中包手希腊货船“太阳号”,土耳其商船“卡拉沟号”,西班牙拖网渔船“阿诺号”成为海盗的目标。
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