From icy comets to Earth's vast oceans, our solar system is chock full of water, yet so far no one has been able to demonstrate how it formed in the first place.
从冰冷的彗星,到地球浩瀚的海洋,我们的太阳系充满了水,但到目前为止,还没人证明它最初是如何形成的。
Every island has at least one energy accent: waves in Maui, wind in Lanai and Molokai, solar panels in Oahu and eventually, if all goes well, biomass energy from crops grown on Kauai.
每个岛屿都至少拥有一个能量来源:毛伊岛的波浪,拉奈岛和莫洛凯岛的风,瓦胡岛的太阳能电池板。最终,如果一切顺利,生物质能将从考艾岛种植的庄稼中获取。
Japan continues to have a program, and test solar sails have been deployed from satellites or rockets, but no one has ever gotten as far as trying to sail them anywhere.
日本一直有这样的计划,并且测试通过卫星和火箭部署的太阳帆,但是目前还没有人试着让帆飞行到任何地方去。
The Oort cloud is a vast belt of dust and ice that is believed to lie around one light year from the Sun and is the origin of many of the comets that pass through our solar system.
奥尔特云是一个由粉尘和冰组成的庞大云带,据信它距离太阳约一光年,许多穿越我们太阳系的彗星都来自那里。
One of the most innovative ideas comes from a start-up called CoolEarth Solar, which USES thin-film plastic lenses, blown up like a balloon, to cheaply concentrate the sun's rays.
最具创意的一个想法来自一个叫CoolEarth Solar的新公司,他们使用薄膜塑料镜片,像一个气球一样吹起来,这样就可以很省钱的聚集阳光。
Though one of our nearest neighbors, Mars is still 43 million miles (69 million kilometers) from Earth, illustrating the nearly incomprehensible vastness of our solar system.
尽管火星与地球靠得最近,但相距也有4 300万英里(6 900万公里),这说明了太阳系统难以理解的浩瀚。
The firm hopes to use remote controlled robots dispatched from their spacecraft to collect samples and explore the South Pole-Aitken basin on the Moon, one of the oldest craters in the solar system.
该公司希望利用他们的飞船发送遥控机器人到月球的暗区去收集样本和探索位于月球南极的艾特肯盆地,太阳系中最古老的火山口盆地之一。
It's accepted by scientists that one of the possible effects from a sufficiently major solar 'spike' is that on Earth all electronic communications might be rendered unusable for some time.
一场足够强大的太阳“风暴”可能产生的影响之一是在一段时间内地球上所有的电子通信工具将无法使用,这点已经被科学家们接受。
A solar collector is one way to collect heat from the sun.
太阳能集热器是收集太阳热能的一种途径。
One of the aims of the SPP mission is to understand the nature of the "solar wind", the mass of charged particles that billows away from the Sun into space.
SPP计划的目的之一是了解“太阳风”——从太阳吹向太空的带电粒子流——的本质。
But that is still a drop in the bucket. Only about one-tenth of 1 percent of the energy consumed in the United States came from solar sources in 2008.
不过这仍然只是杯水车薪,2008年太阳能仅占美国能源消耗的0.1%。
One danger is from unpredictable and potentially deadly solar flares, giant releases of stellar energy that would bombard the craft with radiation and fry its occupants.
危险之一来自不可预定和可能的致命的太阳耀斑,恒星能量的巨大释放将用射线炸毁飞船并且烧焦乘客。
But this success is not enough for Lovegrove; he is already working on the second generation Solar Tree; one that takes even more inspiration from Mother Nature's perfect designs.
这些成功并没有使Lovegrove心满意足,他已经开始研究第二代“太阳树”了。这次他从完美无瑕的大自然中汲取了更多设计灵感。
SolFocus's cell technology comes from Spectrolab, a subsidiary of Boeing, which is one of the largest suppliers of solar panels for use in space.
SolFocus的电池技术来自美国波音公司旗下的子公司光谱实验室(Spectrolab),亦是太空太阳能板最大的厂家之一。
At least one manufacturer, First Solar in Perrysburg, Ohio, increased module efficiency from 6 to 10 percent from 2005 to 2007 and is reaching for 11.5 percent by 2010.
同时至少第一家生产商——在俄亥俄州Perrysburg的初创公司(FirstSolar)已经在2005到2007年间把组件效率从6%提升到了10%且将在2010年达到11.5%。
One other interesting aspect of the relation of coronal holes to the solar wind follows from the appearance of coronal holes at the poles.
日冕洞与太阳风的关系的另一个有趣的方面是日冕洞在两极的形状。
The first version of this facility, Solar One, operated from 1982 to 1988 but had a number of problems.
这种设施,太阳一个的第一个版本,管理从1982年到1988年,但是有一定数量的问题。
Thee Oort cloud is a vast belt of dust and ice that is believed to lie around one light year from the Sun and is the origin of many of the comets that pass through our solar system.
奥尔特云是一个由粉尘和冰组成的庞大云带,据信它距离太阳约一光年,许多穿越我们太阳系的彗星都来自那里。
Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery spent 3 days moving 2 solar power units from one part of the station to another.
“发现号”航天飞船上的宇航员花了3天时间把空间站上的2套太阳能组件从一端移到了另一端。
UV warning technology is one of the important missile warning ways, it detects the radiation signature in the UV solar blind spectral band that is emitted from the approaching hostile missile plume.
紫外告警技术是导弹来袭告警技术的重要类型之一,可利用“日盲区”有效地探测来袭导弹羽烟的紫外辐射。
Pilots from all the known solar systems are getting their vessels ready with only one thought in their head: victory and the substantial reward promised by the doctor.
来自所有的已知太阳系的飞行员正在拿预备好的状态给他们的船由于唯一的在他们的头中想:胜利和被医生答应的实质上的酬谢。
I am, with the social memory complex of which I am a part, one of those who voyaged outward from another planet within your own solar system, as this entity would call it.
我是和社会记忆复合体(socialmemory complex)同在,我是其中的一部分,那些中的一个从你们太阳系的另一个行星开始向外旅行,如这个实体所称的。
LCD screens and semiconductor chips share the same materials and manufacturing processes as solar photo-voltaic cells; many factories have simply been converted from one to the other.
LCD屏幕和半导体芯片与太阳能电池拥有同样的材料和制造过程,许多工厂都从生产一种产品转向了生产另一种。
Barry Cinnamon, CEO of Westinghouse Solar, points out that utilities clearly benefit from one form and not the other.
西屋太阳能首席执行官巴里·辛纳蒙指出,公用事业明确地受益于一种形式,而不是其他。
When suffering light when the solar energy cell board shining to change light energy to the electric energy, and make the current from another side of one side's direction of a current.
当太阳能电池板受到光的照射时,能够把光能转变为电能,使电流从一方流向另一方。
Everytime I think of our wind power or solar energy I get a headache; we are very proud, we are world number one for increasing output from wind power;
每次想到我们的风电和太阳能我就头大,我们很自豪啊,风电新增容量世界第一;
Everytime I think of our wind power or solar energy I get a headache; we are very proud, we are world number one for increasing output from wind power;
每次想到我们的风电和太阳能我就头大,我们很自豪啊,风电新增容量世界第一;
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