纪录片《火星任务》 第20期 开辟新道路

You can't say, "Oh, I'm doing what they did before

你不能说 我是在做别人做过的事

"and it just didn't work out, I didn't get lucky."

没有成功 只是我不够幸运

No, we're not doing what we did before.

不是的 我们不是在重复

We're doing something completely novel,

我们进行的 是全新的尝试

hanging it way out there.

开辟新的道路

You feel exposed.

我们只能靠自己

As chief architect of Curiosity's landing¹ sequence²,

作为好奇号着陆过程的总设计师

Adam Steltzner has gone through each part of it

亚当·施特尔茨纳已经在脑海中

over and over in his head.

无数次地检查了每一步

But for now,

但是直到今日

it only exists in his imagination.

这些还只存在于他的想象中

And in this NASA animation³.

以及美国宇航局的演示动画里

We show up at this near six-kilometre-a-second speed.

火星车抵达火星时速度接近每秒六公里

We burn a hole in the sky of Mars⁴

在火星的天空中烧出了

for about 100 kilometres long.

长约一百公里的洞

We start out at six kilometres a second,

开始减速时是每秒六公里

and we're still going about a kilometre a second.

直到将速度降至每秒一公里

We're not slowing down very much,

速度没能降到很低

because there's not enough atmosphere to help us out.

因为火星大气过于稀薄

So eventually we have to pop a parachute.

所以最后需要弹出一个降落伞

1 landing   

n.登陆；着陆；楼梯平台

参考例句：

• Owing to engine trouble,the plane had to make a forced landing.由于发动机出了毛病，飞机不得不进行迫降。
• When are we landing?我们什么时候着陆？

2 sequence   

n.连续，接续，一连串；次序，顺序

参考例句：

• He had to attend a sequence of meetings.他得参加一系列会议。
• The book is more satisfying if you read each chapter in sequence.这本书依次读各章会更好。

3 animation   

n.活泼，兴奋，卡通片／动画片的制作

参考例句：

• They are full of animation as they talked about their childhood.当他们谈及童年的往事时都非常兴奋。
• The animation of China made a great progress.中国的卡通片制作取得很大发展。

4 Mars   

n.火星，战争

参考例句：

• As of now we don't know much about Mars.目前我们对火星还知之甚少。
• He contended that there must be life on Mars.他坚信火星上面一定有生物。