介绍:
"Touchdown confirmed. We are __1__ on Mars. [Cheers.] Time to see where our Curiosity will take us."
The control room at NASA&`&s Jet Propulsion Laboratory late in the evening of August 5th, __2__ time, when word arrived that the Curiosity rover had landed safely on Mars. The one-ton rover, which dwarfs all Mars landers that came before it, will now spend a planned two years __3__ the Martian surface. The mission is expected to cost $2.5 billion.
Curiosity&`&s task is to __4__ the inside of Gale Crater, where a giant mound of sedimentary deposits may provide evidence of a wetter, possibly habitable Mars __5__ of years ago.
But first it had to survive an elaborate landing sequence, which appears to have gone smoothly. Curiosity landed on time and on __6__ and soon beamed back grainy photos of its wheels and its shadow.
Given the carlike size of the rover and the challenges of landing on Mars, Curiosity&`&s landing goes down as one of the greatest __7__ jobs in history.
“着陆完毕。我们安全抵达火星。现在来看看我们的好奇号漫游车将带我们去何方。”
太平洋时间8月15日深夜，美国宇航局喷气推进实验室的控制室收到好消息：好奇号漫游车安全登录火星。这个漫游车重达一吨，令之前所有的火星探测器相形见绌。按照计划它将在火星表面进行为期两年的探测行动。这个项目预计将花费25亿美元。
好奇号漫游车的任务是调查盖尔陨坑内部。盖尔陨坑有大量的沉积物，这可能会提供证据证明几十亿年前的火星更加湿润，适于居住。
但首先它必须通过精心设计的登录程序，这似乎进展得很顺利。好奇号漫游车准时准点着陆，很快便传回它自己的轮子和影子的模糊照片。
鉴于它类似于汽车的身形，以及在火星上着陆的种种挑战，好奇号的着陆堪称是历史上最伟大的“停车”。
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