And so I went through the math on this and said suppose I wanted to be really sloppy and I wanted to say if the delta X, the uncertainty in position is on the order of one angstrom.

我算完它,并说假如我想很草率,并且我想说如果x的增量，即位置的不确定度,相当于一埃。

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As well as using the rover's X-ray spectrometer on Whitewater Lake and Kirkwood to determine the chemical elements present, and thus get a better idea of their mineralogical composition, the team needs to work out the order and position of the rock layers to tell them something of their relative ages.

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But I also laid out a very strict series of things we needed to do in order to proceed from a position of strength.

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Even the French press now seems to have woken up to the fact that Anglo-American criticism of France's position is of a different order than usual.

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