Far from the sun, in the outer solar system, beyond Jupiter's orbit, temperatures are low enough to permit ices to form out of water and out of gases like methane and carbon dioxide.

在远离太阳的外太阳系，在木星轨道之外，温度低到足以使冰从水以及甲烷和二氧化碳等气体中形成。

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There's probably no intelligent life in the outer solar system.

也许在外太阳系根本没有智慧生命的存在。

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There's probably no intelligent life in the outer solar system. But it couldn't hurt to check.

也许在外太阳系根本没有智慧生命的存在。不过探索一下总归无妨。

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Some scientists have called Jupiter the protector of the inner planets and our own Earth -- from objects from the outer solar system.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

"For reasons I don't really understand the outer solar system, and the potential for life there, has not been a high priority".

BBC: Is Nasa looking in the wrong place for life?

The 1.8m (60-inch) diameter telescope on Haleakala will also spot many small, faint bodies in the outer Solar System that hid from previous surveys.

BBC: Pan-Starrs telescope begins operations to hunt asteroids

Without it such a galaxy's outer parts would spin more slowly than the inner ones (just as the outer planets of the solar system move around the sun more slowly than the earth does).

ECONOMIST: The galactic gourmand