Ground Probe Jacks.

地面探针插孔。

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“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。”

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The Hayabusa probe blazed a spectacular trail as it came in to hit the ground at a blistering speed, ending a journey to the near-Earth asteroid Itokawa that began in 2003.

这颗“隼鸟号”探测器拖着壮观的火焰尾迹以极快的速度到达地面，结束了一段2003年开始、以近地小行星“系川”为目标的旅程。

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Using filters on the rover's Mast camera (Mastcam) and an instrument which shoots neutrons into the ground to probe for hydrogen, researchers have detected more hydrated minerals near the clay-bearing rock than at locations Curiosity visited earlier in its mission.

BBC: Curiosity breaks rock to reveal dazzling white interior

So we selected a number of really ground-breaking films that probe deeply into this question of what is real.

WSJ: Repertory Film: Mining Forgotten Gems, Finding the Real China

Ground crews were unable to contact the probe and it is unclear what happened to it.

BBC: Gusev crater (Nasa)