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Come back six months later and it's like a different world.
六個月后回來,它就像一個不同的世界。
The sun is shining.
陽光閃耀。
It's wet. It's warm.
很濕，很溫暖。
Things are alive and skirring around.
東西都是活的,而且在周圍打轉。
So we may be being misled, seeing its frozen, cold side.
所以我們可能被誤導,看到其凍結，非常冰冷的一面。
And in fact, we are just there at the wrong season.
事實上,我們只是在錯誤的季節而已。
We know that on earth, some bacteria can survive being frozen for millions of years.
我們知道,在地球上,一些細菌被凍結了數百萬年后仍可以存活。
They can also eat perchlorate,
它們還可以吃高氯酸鹽,
the highly reactive chemical Pheonix found in the Martian soil.
土壤中發現的高活性化學物質。
Presumably if there's life at the Pheonix site,
大概在鳳凰城這個地方有生命存在,
it had learned the same trick.
它學到了相同的訣竅。
So there might be organisms that are literally eating the rocks and reacting with perchlorate,
所以可能有生物吃巖石并和高氯酸鹽發生反應,
below the surface, shielded from the ultraviolet light,
在表面下,屏蔽紫外線,
just having a great old time five million years ago.
僅僅擁有一個偉大的五百萬年前的舊時光。
The party is over because everybody is frozen,
聚會結束了,因為大家都被冷凍了起來,
but another five million years,
但另一個五百萬年后,
the party will start up again as the Martian summer comes to the north polar regions and the ice turns to water.
火星的夏天來到北極地區，冰變成水后聚會再次開始。
The party might not be over everwhere.
聚會也許并不會結束。
The gas methane has been found both by spacecraft in orbit and by telescopes from earth.
天然氣甲烷都被在軌道中的宇宙飛船和地球上的望遠鏡所發現。
注：聽力文本來源于普特
