評論
打印
Could there be extraterrestrial life here?
那里有外星生物嗎？
Are we ready to rewrite the history books, to tear up the science books
我們準備好改寫史書，撕毀科學書籍
to turn our world upside down?
顛覆我們的世界了嗎？
What happens next could change everything
接下來發生的可能會改變一切
Mars is the planet that most captures our imagination.
火星比任何其他行星都能激發我們的遐想
Think of B-movies, sci-fi comics, what follows?
想到科幻電影、漫畫，你會聯想到什么-
Martians?
火星人？
It's all just fiction, right?
這都是虛構的，對嗎？
But what it there really is something here?
但如果這里真的有生物呢？
Hard to imagine, though. Up close, this is a dead planet
無法想像，近觀火星是一個死去的行星
The activity that makes the Earth livable shut down millions of years ago here
使得地球適宜居住的演化過程幾億年前在火星上就停止了
Red and dead
紅色、死寂
Mars is a giant fossil.
火星是一塊巨大的化石
Wait. Something is alive
等一下，還有東西在活動
A dust devil, a big one
一個巨大的塵暴
Bigger than the biggest twisters back home.
絕對超過地球上最大的龍卷風
There's wind here
這里有風
And where there's wind, there's air
有風說明有空氣
Could that air sustain extraterrestrial life?
可以維持外星生物的空氣
It's too thin tor us to breathe.
但對我們的呼吸來說，火星的空氣太稀薄了
And there's no ozone layer
而且這里沒有臭氧層
Nothing to protect us against the Sun's ultraviolet rays.
沒有什么能夠保護其不受太陽紫外線的傷害
There is water
這里有水
But frigid temperatures keep it in a constant deep freeze
但在徹骨的嚴寒中只能永遠被冰凍
It's hard to believe anything could live here
很難相信有什么可以在這里生存
Back on Earth, there are creatures that survive in extreme cold, heat
但是在地球，極冷和極熱的地方都有生物存在
even in the deepest ocean trenches
即使在最深的海溝
It's as though life is a virus.
生命好像病毒
It adapts, spreads
會適應環境、會散播
Maybe that's what we're doing right now
也許我們現在正在攜帶著
carrying the virus of life across the universe.
生命的病毒穿越宇宙
Even in the most extreme conditions life usually finds a way.
即使在最極端的環境里，生命都會找到生存的辦法
But on a dead planet?
但在這個死去的行星上
With no way to replenish its soil, no heat to melt its frozen water?
沒有活動去補充它土壤中的成分，沒有熱量使其冰凍水融化
All this dust, it's hard to see where we're going
還有大量塵埃，讓我們無法辨別方位
