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So lovely from Earth, up close, this goddess is hideous
從地球看她是多么可愛，近觀這個女神卻是可怕的
She's the sister from hell.
她是來自地獄的姊妹
Pockmarked by thousands of volcanoes
數千座火山猶如長滿了痘瘡
All that carbon dioxide is trapping the Sun's heat.
大氣層中的二氧化碳留住了太陽熱量
Venus is burning up.
金星正在燃燒
It's global warming gone wild
這是無節制的全球氣候變暖
Before it took hold, maybe Venus was beautiful, calm...
在它變暖之前或許是美麗而平靜的
more like her sister planet, Earth. ...
很像她的姊妹星，地球
So this could be Earth's future
也許就它是我們地球的未來
Where are the twinkling stars?
那些閃爍的星星哪里去了？
The beautiful spheres gliding through space?
美麗的圓球滑進了太空？
Maybe we shouldn't be out here, maybe we should turn back
或許我們不應該來這里，我們應該回去
But there's something about the Sun, something hypnotic, like the Medusa
但是太陽有催眠般的魔力，象美杜莎（古希臘神話中3位蛇發女怪之一）
Too terrible to look at, too powerful to resist
可怕的讓人無法正視，也無法抗拒她的力量
Luring us onward on, like a moth to a flame.
引誘我們繼續前進，像飛蛾撲火
Wait ,there's something else, obscured by the sun
等等，這里還有其他東西被太陽炙烤
It must be Mercury.
它一定是水星
Get too close to the sun, this is what happens.
太靠近太陽，就會這樣
Temperatures swing wildly here
這里溫度劇烈變化
At night, it's minus 275 degrees
晚上會到零下275度（-170°C）
come midday, it's 800 plus. ...
正午則超過800度（400°C）
Burnt then frozen.
燒焦再被冰凍
The MESSENGER space probe is telling us something strange.
信使號空間探測器發現了一些奇怪的現象
For its size, Mercury has a powerful gravitational pull.
相對體積來說，小小的水星具有強大的引力
It's a huge ball of iron, covered with a thin veneer of rock
它就像一個裹著薄薄巖石層的大鐵球
The core of what was once a much larger planet.
這是一顆大行星留下的核心
So where's the rest of it?
其他部分去哪里了呢？
Maybe a stray planet slammed into Mercury
或許是一個迷路的行星猛地撞進了水星
blasting away its outer layers in a deadly game of cosmic pinball ...
在一場致命的宇宙彈球游戲中水星的外層被炸掉了
Whole worlds on the loose careening wildly across the cosmos...
這些游蕩的行星在宇宙中瘋狂地掠過
destroying anything in their path ...
毀掉他們道路上的一切
And we're in the middle of it
我們就在其中
Vulnerable, exposed, small
脆弱、裸露而且渺小
Everything is telling us to turn back.
這一且都在告訴我們該回去了
But who could defy this?
但是誰又能抗拒的了
The Sun in all its mesmerizing splendor
散發著迷人光彩的太陽？
Our light, our lives...
我們的光線，我們的生命
everything we do is controlled by the Sun
我們的一切都被太陽控制著
Depends on it
依賴于它
It's the Greek god Helios driving his chariot across the sky
它是駕著戰車穿越天際的希臘美男子太陽神
The Egyptian god Ra reborn every day
是每天重生的埃及神“拉”（埃及神話里的太陽神）
The summer solstice sun rising at Stonehenge.
以及巨石陣夏至的日出
For millions of years...
數百萬年來
this was as close as it got to staring into the face of God
我們對太陽神的景仰止于遠觀
