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Our compass points across the cosmos
我們的方向指向宇宙
back in time 14 billion years
回到140億年前
to the moment of creation.
創(chuàng)世的那一刻
This is getting scary.
此情此景開始讓人害怕
It's like being inside a giant video game
就像置身于一個巨大的視頻游戲
But these are all too real.
但這些也是真實的
Asteroids, some of them hundreds of miles wide
小行星，其中有些有數(shù)百英里寬
This one must be about 20 miles long.
這個約有20英里長
And there, perched on it, a space probe.
你看，上面有個空間探測器
Can't have been easy
降落在一個時速達(dá)5萬英里
parking on an asteroid traveling at 50,000 miles an hour.
的小行星上可不是件容易的事
It's a lot of effort just to investigate some rubble.
我們一直在努力研究這些碎石
Rubble that regularly collides
碎石之間經(jīng)常碰撞
breaks up and rains down on Earth as meteorites.
碎片后來落在地球上，就形成了地球上看到的隕石
Our ancestors saw shooting stars as magical omens.
我們的古人把流星雨看做是魔法的征兆
And they were right
他們是對的
Rubble like this came together to make the planets
就是這樣一些碎石聚在一起就會形成行星
including our own
包括我們的地球
Pretty magical.
多美的魔法
By dating the meteorites found on Earth
通過測定地球上發(fā)現(xiàn)的隕石年齡
we can tell the planets were born 4.6 billion years ago.
我們知道行星誕生于45億年前
These are the birth certificates of our solar system.
這些殞石是我們太陽系的出生證明
For some reason, these rocks didn't form into a planet
但有些原因?qū)е逻@些巖石沒有形成行星
Something must have stopped them
一定是什么阻止了他們
Something powerful.
某種強(qiáng)大的力量
Jupiter.
木星
What a monster
猶如巨大的怪物
At least a thousand time bigger than Earth
至少比地球的大1000倍
so vast you could fit all the other planets inside it
大到可以裝下太陽系其它所有行星
Something this massive dominates its neighbors
木星的巨大體積對它周圍產(chǎn)生很大的影響
Its gravity is pulling the asteroids apart
它的引力正在把這些小行星形成扯開
And it's breathtaking
真是美極了
But this beauty is a beast.
但這個美人是個巨獸
It's almost all gas.
木星幾乎都是由氣體構(gòu)成的
Land here and we'd sink straight through its layers into oblivion.
如果在這里著陸，我們會徑直穿過它的外層一去不復(fù)返
And Jupiter's good looks?
木星的美麗面孔是
The product of ferocious violence
它極端狂暴的產(chǎn)物
It's spinning at an incredible rate
木星自轉(zhuǎn)極快
whipping up winds to hundreds of miles an hour
卷起時速數(shù)百英里的颶風(fēng)
contorting the clouds into stripes eddies, whirlpools
把云層扭曲成條狀和大大小小的漩渦
and this, the legendary Great Red Spot
這就是傳說中的大紅斑
The biggest, most violent storm in the solar system.
它是太陽系中最大、最猛烈的風(fēng)暴
At least three times the size of Earth, it's been raging for over 300 years
至少有地球的3倍大，已經(jīng)肆虐了超過300年了
