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- So the reason there's a time difference on Mars right now,
- 火星上的时间和我们现在的时间是不一样的,
- from the time that we're at is because the Martian day is longer than the Earth day.
- 因为火星的一天比地球要长。
- Our Earth day is 24 hours, because that's how long it takes the Earth to rotate, how long it takes to go around once.
- 我们的地球一天是24个小时,那是因为地球自身转动,刚好旋转一周的时间。
- So our day is 24 hours. It takes Mars 24 hours and approximately 40 minutes to rotate once.
- 就是我们一天的24小时。火星自转一周需要24小时零40分钟。
- So that means that the Martian day is 40 minutes longer than the Earth day.
- 这就是说,火星的一天比地球长40分钟。
- So teams of people who are operating the rovers on Mars, like this one,
- 屏幕里这群操纵着火星漫游者的人,
- what we are doing is we are living on Earth, but working on Mars.
- 我们生活在地球,但是工作在火星。
- So we have to think as if we are actually on Mars with the rover.
- 所以,我们不得不认为我们就是和漫游者一起呆在火星上。
- Our job, the job of this team, of which I'm a part of,
- 我们团队中我参与的一部分工作,
- is to send commands to the rover to tell it what to do the next day.
- 就是把指令发送给漫游者,让她知道明天需要做些什么。
- To tell it to drive or drill or tell her whatever she's supposed to do.
- 告诉她是要行驶,还是开采些岩土样本,或是其他应该做的事情。
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纳金·考克斯是第一代火星人。作为美国航天局喷气推进实验室的一名航天器工程师,考克斯工作的团队操控着美国在火星的巡游者探测器。但是在另一个星球朝九晚五的上班很特别,尤其是这个星球还比地球多了40分钟,是很有意思也极具挑战的工作。
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