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本节目将带领大家探索谜样的太阳，深入了解太阳对我们过去、现在、未来生活的重要性。也探讨了太阳如何影响地球的重大科学发现，它每秒钟所释放的能量足够人类使用百万年。它仍是我们未来唯一的希望。
adj. 敏感的，灵敏的，易受伤害的，感光的，善解人意的
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- The auroras dancing displays of celestial light
- 在天空中熠熠生辉的极光
- are caused by particles from the solar storm smashing
- 是太阳风暴夹带的微粒
- through the magnetic field at the poles.
- 撞击地球两极磁场的结果
- When they strike the upper atmosphere
- 它们撞击高层大气时
- they light up the polar skies.
- 会照亮极地天空
- In the strongest storms at the peak of the solar cycle
- 在太阳周期达巅峰时产生的强烈风暴中
- the Northern lights can be seen
- 连雅典和古巴
- as far south as Athens and Cuba.
- 都看得到北极光
- But the buffeting of the magnetic field has other unseen effects.
- 但对磁场的冲击还有其他肉眼看不到的影响
- Migratory animals that navigate using the magnetic field
- 利用磁场导航的动物
- can lose their bearings.
- 可能会迷失方向
- Racing pigeons don't come home.
- 赛鸽回不了家
- And whale strandings have been
- 鲸鱼搁浅的频率
- seen to increase with solar activity.
- 会随着太阳的活动而增加
- But most worrying for us is the effect
- 但最让我们担忧的是
- that the disrupted magnetic field can have on electronics.
- 混乱磁场对电子系统造成的影响
- The strongest storms can damage
- 强烈太阳风暴可能会破坏
- or destroy satellites with devastating effects.
- 或摧毁卫星，造成严重影响
- We're sort of more sensitive to the sun
- 我们对太阳的敏感程度
- than we probably realise
- 也许超乎我们的理解
- because when the sun releases these,
- 因为当太阳以太阳闪焰和
- this magnetic energy in the form of solar flares and,
- 日冕物质抛射
- and coronal mass ejections,
- 的形式释放磁力时
- maybe you don't notice it at first, but um,
- 也许你一开始不会注意到
- the crackle on your cell phone
- 但手机出现杂音
- or your cell phone going out
- 或手机没信号
- may actually be caused by enhanced activity on the sun.
- 很可能是因为太阳活动增强所致
- Mobile telephones, television,
- 行动电话，电视
- airplane navigation even weapons guidance systems
- 飞机导航系统，甚至武器导航系统
- all rely on satellite communication
- 都仰赖卫星通讯
- and all can be disturbed by space weather.
- 所以都会受到太空天气的干扰
- The more we are reliant on these systems
- 我们越仰赖这些系统
- the more we will feel the effects of the sun's tantrums.
- 就越能感受到太阳发火的威力
- But we still don't understand
- 但我们对太空天气
- all of the effects of Space Weather.
- 造成的影响仍未透彻了解
- No-one can explain the effect on the climate.
- 没有人能解释其对气候造成的影响
- Or why the disappearance of sunspots should cause an ice age.
- 或是太阳黑子消失为何会引发冰河时期
- It may not matter.
- 也许已经无所谓了
- The small effect that solar variation has on the climate
- 太阳活动对气候造成的微小变化
- has long since been drowned out by man-made global warming.
- 早就因人为的全球暖化而相形见绌
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| sensitive | ['sensitiv] | 联想记忆 | ||
| cell | [sel] | |||
| variation | [.vɛəri'eiʃən] | |||
| devastating | ['devəsteitiŋ] | |||
| global | ['gləubəl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| disappearance | [.disə'piərəns] | |||
| understand | [.ʌndə'stænd] | |||
| mass | [mæs] | |||
| magnetic | [mæg'netik] | 联想记忆 | ||
| communication | [kə.mju:ni'keiʃn] |
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