Space-themed baby names - perhaps inspired by the publicity around NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover - also rose in popularity.
受空间探索启发而取的宝宝名字也有增加，这也许是受到美国宇航局发射好奇号火星探测器的影响。
NASA recently announced that anyone can go online and input their name in a massive database, which will be placed onto a microchip that will be sent up with the Mars Curiosity Rover in 2011.
最近NASA宣布说，现在每个人都可以通过上网把他们的名字输入到一个巨大的数据库中，接着这些数据库会被存入到一个微芯片中，而这个存有你名字的芯片将于2011年通过“火星猎奇漫游号”送上火星。
Curiosity is about twice as long and more than five times as heavy as any previous Mars rover.
好奇号的长度是之前火星探测器的两倍，重量则超出了四倍多。
TOWARDS the end of 2011 a large and hugely expensive robotic rover called Curiosity is due to blast off for Mars from Cape Canaveral.
在2011年即将结束之际，庞大又造价不菲的机器漫游者(称为“好奇者号”)在美国卡纳维拉尔角点火升空，向火星进发。
NASA will launch the next-generation Mars rover - the car-size Curiosity, this autumn, for arrival at Mars' Gale crater in August 2012.
美国宇航局将在今年秋天发射新一代、汽车大小的火星探测器好奇号，预计2012年8月抵达火星盖尔陨坑。
Dr Grotzinger is the chief scientist for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, whose rover, Curiosity, landed on the planet last year.
格罗青格博士是NASA火星科学实验室任务的首席科学家，该任务的漫游车——好奇号于去年在火星着陆。
Dr Grotzinger is the chief scientist for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, whose rover, Curiosity, landed on the planet last year.
格罗青格博士是NASA火星科学实验室任务的首席科学家，该任务的漫游车——好奇号于去年在火星着陆。
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