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When I was eight years old, I saw a movie about a mysterious island that had an erupting volcano and lush jungles filled with wild animals and cannibals. The island was ruled by a beautiful woman called Tondalaya, the Fire Goddess of the Volcano. It

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On earth, most of the methane in the atmosphere has been belched by living organisms, 在地球上，大气中的大部分甲烷都是由活着的生物体喷出的， so finding the gas on Mars would be happy news for seekers after extraterrestrial

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Regardless of their source, any methane molecules in Mars's atmosphere would, on the basis of experiments on Earth, be expected to hang around for centuries. 不论它从何而来，根据地球的实验，火星大气中的任何甲烷分子将有望徘

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At the library in Manson they are delighted to show you a collection of newspaper articles and a box of core samples from a 1991-92 drilling program, 在曼森图书馆，他们会很高兴给你看一批收藏的报纸文章和一箱子取自1991-19

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