NiliFossae 被美国宇航局火星科学实验室列为漫游者探测器在2011年的潜在登陆点。
Nili Fossae was put forward as a potential landing site for Nasa'a ambitious new rover, the Mars Science Laboratory, which will be launched in 2011.
它会带有太阳能光板和一个额外的钚- 238核电电源,这和装在火星科学实验室即将推出的登月车上的一样。
It will have solar panels and a supplementary power source in the form of a plutonium-238 nuclear battery, the same type installed on the forthcoming Mars Science Laboratory rover.
如果有必要的话,这种动力能让火星科学实验室运行好几年,不过它当前的任务仅打算持续23个月。
If necessary, the motivation can let Mars science laboratory run for several years, but it is only going to continue the current task 23 months.
格罗青格博士是NASA火星科学实验室任务的首席科学家,该任务的漫游车——好奇号于去年在火星着陆。
Dr Grotzinger is the chief scientist for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, whose rover, Curiosity, landed on the planet last year.
与美国宇航局以前选择太阳能电池板的任务不同,火星科学实验室在火星表面旅行时,将利用核能让自己更多产。
And NASA solar panels task before choose different, Mars science laboratory on the surface of Mars travel, will make more productive use of nuclear energy.
不管这颗红色星球曾经孕育过微生物有机体还是这些小东西现在还依然健在,火星科学实验室的主要任务就是彻底摸清它的环境状况。
MSL's mission is to scour the red Planet for environments that may once have harbored, or may still harbor, microbial organisms.
其他地质学家,包括罗德岛州布朗大学的约翰.马斯塔德对这一地点提出质疑。 马斯塔德团队曾向火星科学实验室提交的登陆决选名单中包含这一地点。
The site was championed by other geologists, including John Mustard from Brown University in Rhode Island, whose team made the case to Nasa to have it included in the landing site shortlist for MSL.
在8月离开地球的凤凰号火星着陆探测器预计在明年5月到达火星(这篇文章写于2007年,故应为2007年8月离开地球,2008年到达火星),并且NASA计划在2009年发射火星科学实验室。
The Phoenix Mars Lander, which left Earth in August, is expected to reach the Red Planet next May, and NASA plans to launch the Mars Science Lab in 2009.
火星远距离科学实验室,计划在年末发射,它对此的帮助不大。
The Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled to launch late this year, will not be able to help.
火星远距离科学实验室,计划在年末发射,它对此的帮助不大。
The Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled to launch late this year, will not be able to help.
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