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Conditions on Mars were so harsh that it was hard to imagine any life surviving there. The idea of sophisticated aliens was wiped out. We know that conditions on Mars today are not very good for life.

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(159) / 评论(0) 分类 火星生命

These discoveries raised the stakes. Here was a planet similar to our own. Mars might not have cities or civilizations. But it could be home to other smaller life forms like microbes. Chris McKay is N

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I think it is exciting. Because it would imply that if life arose independently on Mars. The implication is that life is pervasive throughout the universe. This is why Mars has so obsessed scientists.

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In 2001 a new NASA probe was launched. Called Odyssey, it was sent to Mars to carry out the most detailed analysis ever of the planet’s surface. What it has discovered may be about to answer one of

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But even if there had been water, life doesn't start overnight. Even a simple microbe is the product of complex chemical systems that take millions of years to evolve. Had the water lasted long enough

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Rice had seen the same thing in Iceland, one of the few places on Earth with similarities to Mars. It too is extremely cold, and most of the water is frozen into glaciers. And also like Mars, buried u

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For Mars to have rivers, it must once have had streams, rain, clouds and an atmosphere, a planet just like the Earth today-if these were rivers. They had to be sure. The answers would come in 1998 wit

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William Boynton is professor of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona. And he's dedicated his life to looking for water on Mars. The link between life and water is very strong. Even here in

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By Mario Ritter Broadcast: July 8, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Recently, a listener in Nigeria told us about an organization called World-Wide Opportuniti

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. BP is coming under mounting pressure to step up its response to the country's worst ever oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico. It's coming down from top Obama administration officials who've been dispatched

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Of course, any terraforming is still a long way off. The next few expeditions to Mars will definitely be made by machines. NASA, are sending 2 rovers, capable of travelling over 100 meters a day in se

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Well, hearing that Odyssey had found subsurface water on Mars was enormously exciting for somebody who is involved in planning to send humans to Mars. Water has a number of important uses for us. At t

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Life on Earth is basically proteins and DNA, so we can wonder if there is life on Mars will also be DNA and proteins, the same type of DNA, the same type of proteins. One might think that DNA is such

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But there was something even better. Odyssey may not just have found ice. There may also be liquid water, and that means, there could be living creatures there too. Right now, there might be liquid wa

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But they never got there. The first disappeared into deep space. Another missed its target when its coordinates were confused. One NASA control center was working in metric, the other in feet and inch

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The ground here is permafrost, a mixture of soil and ice frozen together. A group of Russian scientists have teamed up with NASA to drill down into it in search of microorganisms. It's work that's bee

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One of these wavelengths corresponds to hydrogen, another wavelength would be iron. Another wavelength would be oxygen. And so you go to the part of the spectrum you are interested in and you see you'

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. Thisll just take a minute. Bisphenol A. Also called BPA, it's used to make shatter-proof plastic known as polycarbonate, found in everything from water bottles to medical devices to

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今天我们要学的词是organic。 Organic, 有机的,绿色的。 Organic product, 有机产品。近年来,美国很多消费者开始崇尚绿色、有机食品。不过,统计数字显示, Organic food accounted for only 3.5% of the fo

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A Smooth Wake 平静的尾流 (A smooth wake on today's moments of science) Female: Donne and I are on a fantacy cruise . The sun has set and were standing on the rear deck. Look at the reflection of the moon. Male: You might expect a ship's wake

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Allende Gossens
anya
aseptic process
Avena fatua L.
bavaroise
Beit Ummar
bipotent
blood blister
bring sth into a satisfactory settlement
Bulbophyllum tokioi
bunker underground
business unit business plan
cargo swivel
carraig na siuire (carrick-on-suir)
changing-the-subject
channel I/O burst operation
cholecystokinins
compassionary
competitive comparison method
contrapas
crookens
CRq.
Culmstock
cyclooctatriene
dahlmann
deglutition center
desynchronizes
dingzhi pills
Diplospora fruticosa
dixon's statistics
Dominus.
double-current system
dulnesses
duplessis
enkolpion
equivalent-group method
field pea
fine mix
fox-furs
free combination
freno
go-no-go-test
guch
guditus
hardkill
Herbitzheim
herculeans
high-tech
Hornillos
hydram
incomplete reflection
late-winter
lean solution
length of real aperture
limpo
liquid foundation
Los Banos
low-jitter clock
mass luminosity radius relation
merchandise return
monomethyltransferase
mudshark
multilink procedure
Ngoc Quan
noise frequency spectrum
nut-tap
page virtual memory system
panicstricken
Parcelforce
pedal lobes
philiphaughs
PHWR (pressurized heavy-water-moderated and cooled reactor)
Pigs Bay of
pneumatoysis
polder mitton
pottery industry
PPSAB
preidentified
press out a dress
profile reading unit
r.w.b
retexturized
scaramouche (italy)
Schwachman-Diamond syndrome
self setting silicate systems
spray-curing rig
superdielectric glass
thermodynamic stability
thirty-five
tightlock coupler
to read...aloud
Tompa
top-fermentings
transportation lag
triboluminescence
Truchtersheim
uninvestigatable
Veringendorf
Wedgwood blues
what's happening
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