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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(110) / 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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'Deepwater Horizon' Honors The Sacrifice Without Sacrificing The Action play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:02repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update you

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Do you resemble someone famous? Jo: Hello, this is Real English from BBC Learning English, Im Jo. Sun Chen: 嘿,你好吗?我是孙晨。 Jo: In Real English, we look at words and phrases that you might not find in your dictionary. Sun Chen: 你是不是已经发

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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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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Eight years ago today, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 people and led to a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident prompted big changes in how the country regulates offshore drilling. No

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大家都知道spit的意思是“唾液”。可奇怪的是,有一个和spit相关的词组spit and image的意思却是“和……一模一样的(人或东西)”。 语源学界普遍接受的

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今天我们要讲的两个习惯用语有同样的意思。它们都用来说某一个人非常像另一个人。第一个习惯用语是:dead ringer。 Ringer原来意思就是酷似某人的人或者很像某物的东西. Ringer有时可以指冒名

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anticoincidence element
apron shell
argument handing
Babalawo
bag-lady
Ban Mae Lamung
beer scale
Benahmed
bifin log-periodic antenna
blenkins
cardiac sious
circulating ventilation
constant-volume specific heat
Coulomb-Navier strength theory
demonetarizes
diaphanum
engine kilometer
eragrostis minor
erte
fact - finding mission
fixed satellite
Fridericsen's tests
fuke
Gifs
guysard
how come something happened
hyperbranching
hypnea seticulosa j.ag.
independence and competence
internal heat generation
investigatively
Klippel-Weil sign
Krebs-Hanseleit cycle
L-Galactoheptulose
lane-direction-control signal
law of securities
load matching
Loengo
material-testing machine
media events
mercury cathode separation
merryville
midbrows
mikros
moka-moka
motacilla flava taivana
MS Office
national treatment
news babes
nondecoded
nonspecific proteinotherapy
ocean-lore
ordinary low-alloy steel
otherwhat
pause period
pavans
payment orders
peecing
pericyazine
periorbititis
plumbablest
polder land
possess one's soul in patience
pulmonary stretch receptor
pyrogallic-acid
qa quality assurance
quaking concrete
residence city
rib bamartoma
root-mean-square question
rotation drill boom
rudder trunk collar
Samut Prakan, Changwat
scales of rhipidistia
scraped surface freezer
senomanian series(epoch)
Sertânia
shrink link
soudans
southern white cedars
squashers
Stensen's plexus
sternocostal triangle
subbasis
taite
tectonic culmination
terminal transmitter
thick juicebody
time division multiplexing (tdm)
torque balance system
two-stage gasifier
underivable
unsecure
unsorted
Uňa de Quintana
vacuum fusion method
waily
water roll
weather stain
yaoshanicus
ynambu
yuast