THE stretch of the Pacific between Hawaii and California is virtually empty. There are no islands, no shipping lanes, no human presence for thousands of miles—just sea, sky and rubbish.

夏威夷到加州的之间几千英里太平洋海面空无一岛，没有船舶航线，没有人烟，只有大海、天空和垃圾。

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As if the picture wasn't stunning enough, it also features Mars glowing fiercely against the rich blue of the Pacific night sky.

尽管这张照片还不足以令人叹为观止，在这片蓝宝石般的太平洋夜空中，火星也在闪烁着金光。

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One moonless night, while flying a routine training mission over the Pacific, I wondered what the sky would look like from 84,000 feet if the cockpit lighting were dark.

一个看不到月亮的夜晚，我们在太平洋上空执行一次常规训练。 我当时突发奇想：如果把舱内灯光调暗的话，夜空会是什么样呢？

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We were into open country now, running straight up the coast about a mile from the ocean on a two-lane blacktop road across the dunes with no clouds in the sky and a full moon blazing down on the Pacific.

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