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All these churning clouds must have sparked an electrical storm
這些翻騰的云產生閃電雷暴
Just one bolt is 10,000 times more intense than any at home.
任何一個閃電都比我們地球上的強一萬倍
Looks like the safest place to see Jupiter is from a distance
遠觀眺望才是最好最安全的
Up there at the poles
在它的兩極
those dancing lights, they're like the auroras back home.
那些光就像我們地球的極光一樣在翩翩起舞
But the Geiger counter is going wild
但蓋格計數器的讀數開始發狂
Even these are deadly, generated by lethal radiation
致命輻射產生的光看起來也是能致人死地
Out here, nothing is what it seems.
太空中凡事不可貌相
The universe is full of terrors, traps.
宇宙充滿了恐怖和陷阱
Maybe this is a safe haven, the multi-colored moon, Io
也許這個五彩繽紛的木衛一是一個避風港
Wrong
錯了
Very wrong.
大錯特錯
Those brilliant colors are molten rock, volcanoes spewing lava.
那些閃亮的顏色是融巖、火山噴出的巖漿
Our journey across the universe is turning into a struggle for survival
我們神奇的宇宙之旅開始變成了生存之戰
We've got to hope that if we outlast the dangers
我們曾希望只要戰勝這些危險
we'll be rewarded by wonders beyond imagination
我們就會看到無法想像的奇觀
Four hundred million miles from Earth
離開地球4億英里
flying a commercial airliner here would take nearly a century
搭乘民航航班要飛一個世紀
What a weird looking place
多么古怪的地方
and yet, strangely familiar
不可思議的是，它看起來又是那么熟悉
A bit like the Arctic, with all that ice, all those ridges and cracks
所有的冰、山脊和裂縫，都與北極有點相似
It's Jupiter's moon, Europa.
它是木星的衛星，木衛二
And maybe, like the Arctic, this ice is floating on water, liquid water
也許真的很像北極，冰塊漂浮在液態水上
But we're half a billion miles from the Sun.
但是這里距離太陽有5億英里
Surely, Europa is frozen solid
當然，木衛二是冰凍固體
Unless, Jupiter's gravity is creating friction deep inside
除非木星的引力在它內部造成摩擦
heating the ice into water, allowing life to develop in the water
使冰融化，允許生命在它的
beneath its frozen crust.
冰凍外殼下的水中發展
