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There they are-matter and water,water and matter-soft and hard combined,the crucial alliance shared by every life-form on our planet.
就是它們 物質和水。水和物質軟硬組合,這對地球上所有生物都是至關重要的。
Minerals and metals are even older than the Earth.
金屬礦物元素比地球還要古老。
They are stardust.
它們是星塵。
They provide the Earth's colors.
它們讓地球五彩斑斕。
Red from iron, black from carbon, blue from copper, yellow from sulfur.
紅色是鐵,黑色是碳。藍色是銅,黃色則是硫。
Where do we come from?
我們來自什么哪里？
Where did life first spark into being?
生命火花從哪里迸發？
A miracle of time, primitive life-forms still exist in the globe's hot springs.
一個時光奇跡,地球上的溫泉仍然有原始的生命存活。
They give them their colors.
它們賦予溫泉顏色。
They're called archaeobacteria.
它們叫做古細菌。
They all feed off the Earth's heat all except the cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae.
它們都依靠地球熱能生存。除了藍細菌或是藍綠藻以外。
They alone have the capacity to turn to the sun to capture its energy.
只有它們可以向著太陽來吸取其能量。
They are a vital ancestor of all yesterday's and today's plant species.
它們是古今所有植種的最重要的祖先。
These tiny bacteria...
這些微小的細菌。
and their billions of descendants...
及其數以億計的后代。
changed the destiny of our planet.
改變了地球的命運。
They transformed its atmosphere.
是它們改造了地球的大氣層。
What happened to the carbon that poisoned the atmosphere?
毒害大氣層的碳去了哪里？。
It's still here, imprisoned in the Earth's crust.
它還存在只是被囚禁在地殼。
We can read this chapter of the Earth's history...
想要了解地球歷史的這一篇章。
nowhere better than on the walls of Colorado's Grand Canyon.
卡羅拉多大峽谷的峭壁是最好的選擇。
They reveal nearby two billion years of the Earth's history.
它們展現了地球近20億年的歷史。
Once upon a time, the Grand Canyon was a sea inhabited by microorganisms.
大峽谷曾經是一個聚居著微生物的海洋。
They grew their shells by tapping into carbon from the atmosphere...
它們汲取從大氣層溶解到海洋里的碳。
dissolved in the ocean.
并長出外殼。
When they died, the shells sank...and accumulated on the sealed.
它們死后外殼沉到海床堆疊起來。
