欧洲和日本的航天器探测水星极地
📖 逐句对照翻译
A spacecraft recently sent back some of the best close-up pictures yet of the planet Mercury’s north pole.
一艘宇宙飞船最近传回了一些迄今最好的水星北极特写照片。
The European and Japanese robotic explorer went as close as 295 kilometers above Mercury’s night side before passing directly over the planet’s north pole.
欧洲和日本的机器人探测器在飞越水星北极之前，曾飞至距水星夜侧表面仅295公里的高度。
The European Space Agency (ESA) released images that show craters with deep shadows on our solar system’s smallest planet.
欧洲航天局（ESA）发布的图像显示，太阳系中最小的行星上有着深邃阴影的陨石坑。
ESA noted that the edges, or rims, of the craters called Prokofiev, Kandinsky, Tolkien and Gordimer create permanent shadows.
欧洲空间局指出，普罗科菲耶夫、康定斯基、托尔金和戈迪默这些陨石坑的边缘或坑壁形成了永久阴影。
As a result, these unlit craters are some of the coldest places in the Solar System even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.
因此，尽管水星是离太阳最近的行星，但这些未被阳光照射的陨石坑却是太阳系中最寒冷的地方之一。
Cameras also took images of neighboring volcanic plains known as Borealis Planitia.
相机还拍摄了邻近的火山平原——北极平原的图像。
ESA noted that these are “Mercury’s largest expanse of ‘smooth plains' and were formed by the widespread eruption of…lava 3.7 billion years ago.”
欧洲航天局指出，这些是“水星上最大的‘平滑平原’区域，是由37亿年前广泛喷发的……熔岩形成的”。
Also appearing in the images released by ESA is Mercury’s largest impact crater, the Caloris Basin, which covers more than 1,500 kilometers.
在欧洲航天局发布的图像中，还出现了水星上最大的撞击坑——卡洛里盆地，其直径超过1500公里。
This was the sixth and final flyby of Mercury for the BepiColombo spacecraft since its launch in 2018.
这是自2018年发射以来，BepiColombo号航天器对水星的第六次也是最后一次飞掠。
The recent move put the spacecraft on a path to enter orbit around Mercury late next year.
最近的行动使航天器踏上了明年晚些时候进入水星轨道的路径。
The spacecraft holds two orbiters, one from Europe and the other from Japan, that will circle the planet’s poles.
该航天器搭载了两个轨道飞行器，一个来自欧洲，另一个来自日本，它们将环绕该行星的两极飞行。
In a statement on its website, ESA noted that Mercury, a small, dry planet, is “the least explored planet of the inner Solar System. Learning more about Mercury will shed light on the history of the entire Solar System.”
欧洲航天局在其网站上的一份声明中指出，水星这颗小而干燥的行星是“内太阳系中探索最少的行星。深入了解水星将有助于揭示整个太阳系的历史。”
The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, an Italian mathematician.
该航天器以已故意大利数学家朱塞佩·科伦坡（贝皮·科伦坡）的名字命名。
Colombo played a part in NASA’s Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, 20 years later, in the Italian Space Agency’s special satellite project that flew on the U.S. Space Shuttle.
科伦坡曾在20世纪70年代参与美国宇航局的水手10号水星任务，并在20年后参与了意大利航天局搭载美国航天飞机的特别卫星项目。
I’m John Russell.
我是约翰·拉塞尔。
Marcia Dunn reported this story for the Associated Press.
玛西亚·邓恩为美联社报道了这一新闻。
John Russell adapted it for VOA Learning English.
约翰·拉塞尔为VOA英语学习频道改编了它。
