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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(148) / 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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发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(133) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

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

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(153) / 评论(0) 分类 火星生命

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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Alex: Dr. Coopers office. Amy: oh, hello, who are you? Alex: Im Alex, Dr. Coopers assistant. CanI help you? Amy: Id like to speak to Sheldon. Alex: Im sorry. Hes asked me to hold allcalls unless youre Stephen Hawking, his mother or himself from the f

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The world-renowned(世界知名的) tenor Placido Domingo has renewed his contract with the Los Angeles Opera, and will continue to serve as the company's Eli and Edythe Broad General Director, the company said o

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MADRID, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- FC Barcelona this Thursday announced that they have reached an agreement with Mexican midfielder, Jonathan Dos Santos to extend his contract with the club until the end of 2015. The contract extension is another show of fa

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431A
ad-libbings
alexander flemings
astrogeodetic theodolite
autoconnected
automatic anodizing equipment
auxiliary water supply
basiflory
bead wire wrap
Bifrost
block models
board-foot measure
brophy good dyadic interaction system
Camellia oleosa seeds
clear scan radar
cloud cavitation
colloidal graphite
colpormon
conditionally-essential
consequenced
countercurrent circulation
creash
crenilabrin
currentness
cylinder-liner
depositional
diequat
direct labo(u)r
distant form
dumasia cordifolia benth et. backer
electric spark grinding machine
floodight
fraxinol
frequently-used data
fresh water distilling unit
gazeteer
get well soon
goutty
hammered dulcimer
homofocal
hypostasized
in service inspection
insulated cover
interfere with the course of justice
intermammillary
irrigation of lacrimal passage
isolated bus
John Burgoyne
Kavelstorf
Ladies' Home Journal
law of causality
leap to mind
lecithin-cholesterolacyltransferase
leerer
lixiviates
low-power field
lymphoplasmocytes
maple butter
maximal oxygen consumption
microtubular
mis-association
mumme
nail file
naval aid auxiliary
navicula pinna
Nioaque
optimalmization
peaucellier inversor
perself
phillyreas
poloidal divertor experiment (pdx)
positive-displacement type fuel pump
quality technology
RAM (reliability-availability-maintainability)
recirculating high-pass velocity preheater
recreatable database
s.r.n
sacrococcygeal liaments
saint ambroses
say uncle
scalloping
sequenced signals
SMACS
soulary
strict sense stationary process
superregenerate
supratemporal line (or supratemporal canal)
sweet distillate
Tarenna attenuata
taupata
technibaryon
ten-pounds gauge pressure
that would be telling
Tourettish
underbracing
uniform size of tree seedlings
water drain
welcome to the world
wing heavy
Woodbridge
wool grading
zero-unity variable