Curiosity Rover

He call to congratulate them on last week's landing of the curiosity rover on Mars, he also as them to let him know the if the craft happens to see any Martians.

总统祝贺上周好奇号成功在火星上降落，并告诉他们如果发现火星人一定通知他一声。

The control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory late in the evening of August 5th, Pacific time, when word arrived that the Curiosity rover had landed safely on Mars.

太平洋时间8月15日深夜，美国宇航局喷气推进实验室的控制室收到好消息：好奇号漫游车安全登录火星。

NASA scientists said Tuesday the Curiosity Mars rover found nitrates in Martian rocks.

美国航空航天局的科学家们星期二说，火星探测器“好奇号”在火星岩石中发现了硝酸盐。

The journal Science says the sampling of the Martian atmosphere by the Curiosity rover confirms it's mostly made of carbon dioxide with hints of other gases.

科学杂志报道，“好奇号”在火星大气的取样证实火星大气主要由二氧化碳及少量其他气体构成。

The descent and landing were called "seven minutes of terror." Since that white-knuckle event, NASA's Curiosity rover has had a little longer than half-a-Martian-year of quiet wonder.

好奇号的减速和降落可以说是惊险的七分钟。从降落到今天，美国宇航局的好奇号探测车已经在火星度过了半个多火星年了。

NASA scientists said Tuesday the Curiosity Mars rover found nitrates in Martian rocks. Nitrates are compounds that contain nitrogen, an element essential for life.

美国航空航天局的科学家们星期二说，火星探测器好奇号在火星岩石中发现了硝酸盐。硝酸盐中含有氮，而氮是维持生命的必要元素。

Q. Supposing you did drain the oceans, and dumped the water on top of the Curiosity rover, how would Mars change as the water accumulated?

Q.如果你像上一期里所说的那样把海水都抽走，浇到“好奇号”火星探测器上，那么随着浇的水越来越多，火星会发生什么变化？

In its search for environments where life might have started on Mars, the Curiosity rover has found the standing water, the energy and the key elements with the right atomic charges.

在寻找火星上适宜生命的环境的过程中，好奇号火星探测车找到了静态水、能源和原子电量正好合适的基本元素。

The Curiosity rover has achieved plenty of firsts in its six months on Mars.

好奇号探测车登陆月球六个月内实现了许多“第一次”。

That prohibition may continue even though two candidate streaks have been identified on the mountain in Gale Crater that NASA's Curiosity rover is now exploring, a mile or two from its planned path.

尽管已在NASA“好奇号”探测车正在探测的盖尔陨石坑（Gale Crater）的那座山上发现了两处疑似条纹，前述禁令可能依然有效。那里距离“好奇号”的原定路线一两英里。

We didn't worry too much about where the oceans were draining to. I picked Mars; the Curiosity rover is working so hard to find evidence of water, so I figured we could make things easier for it.

至于要把海水抽到哪里去这个问题，我随手就选了火星，因为“好奇号”探测器一直在苦苦寻找火星上有水存在的证据，所以我想把海水抽到火星上应该能让“好奇号”轻松一点吧……

Space-themed baby names-perhaps inspired by the publicity around NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover-also rose in popularity.

以太空名词为名的宝宝姓名使用率也在上升，这也许是受到NASA火星探测器好奇号的影响。

Was it the Curiosity Rover, International Space Station, Voyager I spacecraft or space shuttle Discovery?

它是好奇号火星车，国际空间站，旅行者一号还是发现号宇宙飞船？

The Curiosity rover is the size of a car, has17 cameras, a robotic arm, a laser and a drill.

好奇号漫游车相当于一辆小轿车那么大，它配有17个摄像机，1个机械臂和1个激光器。