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。

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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。

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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。

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Now, the Mars Curiosity rover is making an appearance in the wildly successful bird-flinging simulation.

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Earlier this month, the Mars Curiosity rover drilled into the Martian surface, in the hopes of collecting a sample from the interior of a rock.

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Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover has been put into "safe mode" after a computer glitch caused by corrupted files.

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