Despite moving at 18 miles per second, it still takes the Earth a year to make it around the Sun.

不管地球的运行速度只有每秒钟18英里，它还是一年又一年地围绕着太阳运转。

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Light travels at about 300, 000 kilometers per second (186, 000 miles per second) — that's pretty fast.

光速大约为每秒300,000公里(即每秒186,000英里)——非常之快。

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The escape velocity needed by a spacecraft to overcome the tug of Earth’s gravity is around seven miles per second—ie, Mach 34.

宇宙飞船克服地球引力所需的逃逸速度约为每秒7英里（也即34马赫）；

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We don't usually do our chemistry calculations in miles per hour, so let's switch that to 42 meters per second, so it's -- sorry, it's 94 miles per hour.

在化学计算中我们很少,用英里每小时，所以我们把它换算为42米每秒，对不起，它是94英里每小时。

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In fact, they will be moving at four or five miles per second as they approach their targets.

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They shed bubbles of material at speeds of thousands of miles per second, which collide with surrounding dense clouds of hydrogen.

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The first CME is travelling towards Earth at speeds greater than 1300 miles per second, and the second is travelling at about 1100 miles per second.

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