Voyagers in Space
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents One Tough Job.
一难工作目录 。
4 Planning.
4 规划。
6 The Main Task.
6 主要任务。
8 Jupiter.
8号木星.
9 Saturn.
9号土星.
10 Uranus.
天王星10号
11 Neptune.
海王星11号
12 The Golden Record.
12"金录".
13 The Final Task.
13 最终任务。
14 Conclusion.
14 结论。
15 Glossary.
15 词汇。
16 One Tough Job When the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977, they had a tough job ahead.
16个困难的工作 1977年两艘Voyager飞船发射时,前方的工作很艰巨.
Their mission was to explore Jupiter and Saturn, two giant planets in the outer solar system.
他们的任务是探索木星和土星,两个位于外太阳系的巨行星.
Their journey would be long and difficult.
他们的旅程将是漫长而艰难的。
If something broke, the space probes would just have to make do with what they had.
如果有东西坏了,太空探测器就只能用它们拥有的东西了。
Voyager 2 launches from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on August 20, 1977.
Voyager 2于1977年8月20日从佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心发射.
A Titan/Centaur rocket carries it into space.
土卫一/金陶尔火箭携带入太空.
Can You Hear Me Now?
你能听到我吗?
As of 2014, Voyager 1 is about twelve billion miles away.
截至2014年,Voyager 1距离约120亿英里.
It uses a 22.
它使用一个22。
4-watt transmitter that’s as strong as a refrigerator lightbulb to communicate with Earth.
4瓦的发射机 和冰箱的灯泡一样强大 能与地球通信
Signals take about seventeen hours to arrive.
信号需要约17小时到达.
By that time, they’ve faded to about 0.
到那时,
2 billion- billionths (.
20亿亿(.
00000000000000000002) of a watt.
0000000000000002) 一瓦车.
NASA’s Deep Space Network uses 70-meter (230 ft.)
美国国家航空航天局的深空网络使用70米(230平方英尺)
dish antennas around the globe to catch the faint signal.
飞碟天线遍布全球 捕捉微弱信号
Scientists built the Voyagers to be tough.
科学家们建造了沃亚格人以达到强硬.
Their computers were set up to deal with problems that might happen.
他们的电脑是用来处理可能发生的问题的。
Those computers would be toys by today’s standards, though.
这些电脑按照今天的标准是玩具。
They are thousands of times less powerful than a modern cell phone!
他们的威力是现代手机的上千倍!
Scientists guessed that the Voyagers would only last about five years.
科学家猜想沃亚格人只持续了大约五年.
More than thirty-five years later, the twin spacecraft are still sending information back to Earth.
35多年后,双子飞船仍在将信息发回地球.
A giant satellite dish in Australia makes up part of NASA’s Deep Space Network.
澳大利亚的一个巨型卫星天线构成了美国航天局深空网络的一部分。
Planning The Voyager launches were carefully timed.
规划 Voyager号的发射经过了仔细的计时.
In the late 1970s, the four outer planets’ orbits placed them in a nearly straight line.
在20世纪70年代后期,四颗外行星的轨道将其置于了近直线上.
With the planets so close together, it became possible to visit several of them during the same trip.
随着行星的相距如此相近,在同一次旅行中也得以访问多颗行星.
Unfortunately, the rockets that launched the Voyagers into space could only get them to Jupiter—about halfway to Saturn.
不幸的是,将沃亚格人射入太空的火箭只能将其送入木星——大约在土星的中途。
Scientists solved that problem by using Jupiter’s strong gravity to give the spacecraft a boost as it passed by.
科学家们利用木星的强大引力,在飞船经过时给予它助推力,从而解决了这个问题.
A planet’s gravity can “bend” the direction a spacecraft is traveling and change its speed.
一颗行星的重力可以使航天器的行走方向 " 弯曲 " 并改变速度。
Passing just ahead of a planet will slow down a spacecraft, while passing just behind it will speed it up.
飞过行星前方会减慢飞船的速度 而飞过后方会加速飞船的速度
A Rare Opportunity The arrangement of planets when the Voyagers launched was a very rare event.
罕见的机会 沃亚格人发射时的行星安排是一个非常罕见的事件.
To understand why, imagine a clock with hands showing the hours, minutes, and seconds.
为了理解原因,想象一下一个手表 显示时间,分,秒。
Each hand circles the clock face at a different rate: once a minute, once an hour, or once every twelve hours.
每只手以不同的速度环绕钟面:一分一分一分一分一分一分一分一分一分一分一分一分一分.
Any time one hand passes another, the two line up.
每逢一手相传,两行相接.
However, all three align much less often.
然而,这三项内容的一致程度要低得多。
The planets’ orbits take much longer than the clock hands’ trips around, so they line up even less often.
行星的轨道比钟表的行走要长得多,因此它们排出阵来的次数更少。
The four planets’ arrangement during the Voyager missions happens only once every 175 years!
四颗行星在沃耶格任务期间,每175年只发生一次!
Voyager 1 Launch Sept.
9月发射
5, 1977 Voyager 2 Launch Aug.
5,1977 Voyager 2 发射Aug.
20, 1977 Jupiter Mar.
20,1977 朱庇特·马.
5, 1979 Saturn Nov.
5,1979年土星11月号.
12, 1980 Jupiter July 9, 1979 Uranus Jan.
12, 1980 Jupiter July 9, 1979 天王星 Jan.
24, 1986 Neptune Aug.
24, 1986 (英语). Neptune Aug.
25, 1989 Saturn Aug.
25, 1989 土星奥克.
25, 1981 Voyager 2 Voyager 1 The Sun The Main Task At first, the Voyagers’ mission was to study Jupiter and Saturn, their larger moons, and Saturn’s rings.
25, 1981 Voyager 2 Voyager 1 The Sun The Main task (英语). 起初,沃亚格尔人的任务是研究木星和土星,它们更大的卫星和土星环.
The spacecraft carried cameras and scientific instruments.
该航天器载有相机和科学仪器。
Using these instruments, the Voyagers collected information that changed how we understand our solar system.
利用这些仪器,沃亚格人收集了改变我们如何理解太阳系的信息。
Low-gain antenna High-gain antenna Boom for measuring magnetic fields Radio antenna Power supply Cosmic ray sensor Golden record Plasma sensor Low-energy charged particle sensor TV cameras Electromagnetic sensors What’s on Board?
低收益天线 高回报天线 测量磁场的爆炸 无线电天线 供电 宇宙射线传感器 金唱片 等离子体传感器 低能充电粒子传感器 电视相机 电磁传感器 董事会里有什么?
Jupiter The Voyagers’ first target was Jupiter, the solar system’s largest planet.
木星 第一个目标是木星 太阳系最大的行星
Humans had already studied Jupiter through telescopes, but the Voyagers sent back new information.
人类已经通过望远镜研究了木星,但沃亚格人发回了新的信息.
They showed that the Great Red Spot was a huge, constantly spinning storm.
他们显示"大红点"是一个巨大的,不断旋转的风暴.
They discovered a faint ring surrounding Jupiter, like the ones around Saturn.
他们发现了一个围绕木星的微弱环, 就像土星周围的环.
They also found ice sheets on one of Jupiter’s moons and volcanoes on another.
他们还在木星的一个月亮上发现了冰盖,在另一个月亮上发现了火山.
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the first of the outer planets.
木星是来自太阳的第五颗行星,也是外行星的第一颗.
Great Red Spot Saturn The Voyagers’ discoveries continued when they reached Saturn nine months apart, in 1980 and 1981.
大红点土星 1980年和1981年,沃亚格人的发现持续到相隔九个月的土星.
Close-up pictures showed new rings that could not be seen from Earth around the solar system’s second-largest planet.
特写照片显示,太阳系第二大行星周围的地上看不到新的环.
Saturn’s moons were surprising as well.
土星的卫星也令人惊讶。
Several small moons act like “shepherds” for the ice and dust around Saturn, keeping them in separate rings.
数个小月球在土星周围的冰和灰尘上表现得像"花生",将它们保存在单独的环中.
The Voyagers also made the shocking discovery that Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, had an atmosphere.
沃亚格人还做出了令人震惊的发现,土星最大的月球"土卫一"有大气层.
Saturn has the largest system of rings of any planet in our solar system.
土星拥有太阳系中任何行星上最大的环系.
Uranus After its Saturn flyby Voyager 1 headed toward deep space.
天王星在土星飞过Voyager 1号后飞向了深空
However, Voyager 2 continued toward Uranus.
然而,Voyager 2继续向天王星前进.
All its instruments were still working, so NASA decided to keep going.
它的所有仪器都还在工作 所以NASA决定继续工作
No one knew what to expect from Uranus.
没人知道天王星会怎样
This strange-looking planet is tipped on its side.
这个外观怪异的星球 被倾覆在它的一侧
Voyager 2 passed the planet in January 1986.
Voyager 2号于1986年1月通过该行星.
It discovered that Uranus’s sideways position twists its magnetic field into a corkscrew “tail” following the planet.
它发现天王星的侧道位置将它的磁场扭曲为行星后的一个螺旋桨"尾".
Until then, scientists didn’t even know Uranus had a magnetic field!
科学家甚至不知道天王星有磁场。
The rings around Uranus clearly show how the planet is tipped on its side.
天王星周围的星环 清楚地显示地球是如何被倾覆的
Neptune When the Uranus flyby went well, NASA sent Voyager 2 to Neptune as well.
海王星 天王星飞行顺利时,NASA也派了Voyager 2去海王星.
It reached the planet in August of 1989.
它于1989年8月到达了地球.
There, it discovered five new moons.
在那里,它发现了五个新月.
Then, like Voyager 1, Voyager 2 began its journey toward deep space.
然后,像Voyager 1,Voyager 2开始它的旅程 深空。
Methane gas in Neptune’s atmosphere gives the planet its deep blue color.
海王星大气中的甲烷气体使地球呈现出深蓝色的颜色.
The Golden Record Gathering information is only part of the Voyagers’ mission.
金唱片收集信息只是Voyagers任务的一部分。
They are also carrying information out of the solar system.
它们还在太阳系外传播信息。
It’s a message to non-Earth life forms, or aliens.
这是对非地球生命形式或外星人的信息。
The message is on a twelve-inch “Golden Record” on the side of each spacecraft.
信息载于每个航天器一侧的12英寸“金色记录”。
The record includes music, art, and spoken greetings from around the world.
唱片包括音乐,艺术,以及来自世界各地的口述问候.
It also includes sounds from nature.
还包括来自自然界的声音.
The outside of the record has a map showing Earth’s location in the universe.
记录的外部有一张显示地球在宇宙中位置的地图.
Aliens could use it to find Earth, but that probably won’t happen anytime soon.
外星人可以用来寻找地球,
Voyager 1 won’t come close to another star for at least forty thousand years!
Voyager 1在至少四万年内不会靠近另一颗恒星!
Famous American astronomer Dr.
美国著名天文学家 医生
Carl Sagan led the committee that chose what to include on each Golden Record.
卡尔·萨根(Carl Sagan)领导了选择将哪些内容列入每张"金唱片"的委员会.
The Final Task Now that the Voyagers have finished exploring planets, they have a new job.
最终的任务,现在沃亚格人 已经完成探索行星, 他们有一个新的工作。
They are the first probes to explore space beyond our solar system.
它们是第一个探索太阳系以外的空间的探测器。
In August 2012, Voyager left our solar system and began this new journey.
2012年8月,Voyager离开我们的太阳系并开始了这个新的旅程.
The First Messages to Aliens The Golden Record isn’t the first message humans have sent into space.
《给外星人的第一信息》不是人类送入太空的第一批信息。
Pioneer 10 and 11 are the only other human-made objects currently headed out of the solar system.
先驱者10和11是目前唯一一个从太阳系外出的人造物体.
Each carries a metal plaque showing drawings of a man, a woman, and Earth’s position in the universe.
每个都带有一个金属牌子,显示一个男人、一个女人和地球在宇宙中的位置。
Voyager 1 begins trip out of solar system 1986 Voyager 2 reaches Uranus 1989 Voyager 2 reaches Neptune and begins trip out of solar system 1990 Voyager Interstellar Mission begins 1998 Voyager 1 passes Pioneer 10, becoming the most distant human-made object in space 2012 Voyager 1 enters interstellar space Time Line: Important Dates for the Voyager Missions Conclusion “The Voyager mission has opened up our solar system,” says project scientist Dr.
Voyager 1开始出行太阳系 1986 Voyager 2到达天王星 1989 Voyager 2到达海王星 并开始出行太阳系 1990 Voyager 星际任务开始 1998 Voyager 1通过先行者 10,成为太空中最远的人造天体 2012 Voyager 1进入了星际空间时间线:Voyager任务的重要日期结论 “Voyager任务开启了我们的太阳系”,项目科学家 Dr.
Edward Stone.
爱德华·斯通.
The two spacecraft ended up exploring all of the solar system’s giant outer planets and forty-eight of their moons.
两艘宇宙飞船最终探索了太阳系所有巨大的外行星和48个它们的月球.
Now the Voyagers are giving us a first look at deep space.
现在Voyager夫妇让我们先看看深处的空间。
Like two small bottles in the universe’s huge ocean, they carry a message from Earth to whatever lies beyond.
和宇宙大海中的两瓶小瓶子一样, 它们传递着从地球到外面的讯息。