60-Second Science第二期 || 火星上真有一只野生的马特达蒙吗？
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Crater Bottoms Could Be Cradles of Martian Life
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Four billion years ago, our solar system was a very different… very violent place. "So this is the time when life was just emerging on our planet." Stephen Mojzsis, a geologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "It's the time when most of the big scars that you see of the craters of the moon formed."
Those scars are the remnants of what he calls a game of planetary billiards. And Jupiter's gravity is the big break, which sends comets and asteroids flying. "And then these things go bouncing around all over the place. Many of the directions that they go are unpredictable even if they are governed by gravity."
Mojzsis and his colleague Oleg Abramov used supercomputers to model the beat-up surface of Mars at that long-ago time. And they found that all that planetary pummeling—from tiny sand grains all the way up to rocks at least 25 times as big as the one that killed off the dinos here on Earth—could have translated into enough thermal energy to cook the surface of the planet, melt the Martian ice and start up hydrothermal springs.
"And for microbial life, hydrothermal systems, also known as hot springs, it's like the free buffet bar in Vegas—everyone just rushes there. It's just lots and lots and lots of food for microbial life. And they flourish." The study is in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. [Oleg Abramov, Stephen J. Mojzsis: Thermal effects of impact bombardments on Noachian Mars]
Mojzsis has this advice for anyone hunting for alien life on Mars: stick to crater bottoms, "an area that had heat for a long time, that could drive hydrothermal activity. I do not know if life originated in such places, but I can tell you now, wherever there's a hot spring environment it's just completely jam-packed with microbes. So that's where I would look." And that happens to be where NASA's Curiosity rover is looking around right now.
—Christopher Intagliata
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Four billion years ago, our solar system was a very different… very violent place. "So this is the time when life was just emerging on our planet." Stephen Mojzsis, a geologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "It's the time when most of the big scars that you see of the craters of the moon formed."
jus|te|merging，这里可以连读哦～
Those scars are the remnants of what he calls a game of planetary billiards.
billiard台球，那么planetary billiards就是行星台球啦～感觉好有意思有木有！
And Jupiter's gravity is the big break, which sends comets and asteroids flying. "
comet彗星，asteroid小行星，meteor流星，planet行星，stellar星体，constellation星座，moon卫星，nebular星云，这些都是天文方面的词汇啦～
And then these things go bouncing around all over the place. Many of the directions that they go are unpredictable even if they are governed by gravity."
allover，可以连读在一起哦～
Mojzsis and his colleague Oleg Abramov used supercomputers to model the beat-up surface of Mars at that long-ago time. And they found that all that planetary pummeling—from tiny sand grains all the way up to rocks at least 25 times as big as the one that killed off the dinos here on Earth—could have translated into enough thermal energy to cook the surface of the planet,
dino就是dinosaur，恐龙的意思。
thermal energy热能，light energy光能，gravity potential energy重力势能，elastic potential energy弹性势能，kinetic energy动能，chemical energy化学能
melt the Martian ice and start up hydrothermal springs.
martian可指火星的，也可指火星人。前段时间大热的马达的新片子《火星救援》的英文电影名就是The Martian。
Mercury水星，Venus金星，Earth地球，Mars火星，Jupiter木星，Saturn土星，Uranus天王星，Neptune海王星，西班牙语中星期几就是从行星来派生出来的。
hydrothermal 热水的
我查了一下维基百科，给出的解释是这样的：
Hydrothermal synthesis includes the various techniques of crystallizing substances from high-temperature aqueous solutions at high vapor pressures; also termed "hydrothermal method".
hydrothermal synthesis就是指在高压的情况下使高温的溶液析出结晶。
"And for microbial life, hydrothermal systems, also known as hot springs, it's like the free buffet bar in Vegas—everyone just rushes there. It's just lots and lots and lots of food for microbial life. And they flourish." The study is in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. [Oleg Abramov, Stephen J. Mojzsis: Thermal effects of impact bombardments on Noachian Mars]
buffet就是自助餐的意思～
在美国公路旁边有很多华人开的中式自助餐，各种东西都有～
Mojzsis has this advice for anyone hunting for alien life on Mars: stick to crater bottoms, "an area that had heat for a long time, that could drive hydrothermal activity. I do not know if life originated in such places, but I can tell you now, wherever there's a hot spring environment it's just completely jam-packed with microbes. So that's where I would look." And that happens to be where NASA's Curiosity rover is looking around right now.
jam-packed拥挤的，jam有果酱的意思，而traffic jam则是指大塞车
Curiosity rover好奇号火星探测车
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