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NASA's Cassini Death Dives into Saturn

Ending Mission

1. NAZA

"National Aeronautics and Space Administration." 美国国家航空航天局

2. dive into 扎进（土星）

3. Saturn 土星

4. mission 任务

With this view, Cassini captured one of its last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

这张照片是卡西尼号探测器遥望土星和它的光环最后一眼

The spacecraft Cassini ended its 20-year mission on Friday with a final death dive into the planet Saturn.

5. spacecraft 宇宙飞船，航天器

6. planet 行星

NASA scientists and officials gathered at California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for Cassini’s last moments.

7. scientists 科学家

scientists and officials 科学家和官员

“Project manager, flight director. Go ahead. Ok, we call loss of signal at one-one, five-five, four-six.”

8. flight director 飞行指挥官

9. loss of signal 失去信号

Cassini had actually burned up like a meteor 83 minutes earlier, as it dove through Saturn’s atmosphere. But it took that many minutes for the news to reach Earth more than one-and-a-half billion kilometers away.

10. meteor 流星

11. dove through Saturn's atmosphere 坠入土星大气

dove 是动词dive的过去式

12. atmosphere 大气层

13. billion kilometers away 十亿公里远

Artist's drawing of Cassini spacecraft ready for its final dive into Saturn (Credit: NASA/JPL)

艺术家为卡西尼卡号飞船最后一次进入土星绘图

Program manager Earl Maize marked the end of the spacecraft and praised the work of the NASA team.

“I hope you’re all as deeply proud of this amazing accomplishment, congratulations to you all. This has been an incredible mission, an incredible spacecraft and you’re all an incredible team. I’m going to call this the end of mission.”

14. accomplishment 成就

15. an incredible mission 难以置信的任务

16. an incredible spacecraft 不可思议的太空船

The crash was planned by scientists and engineers at NASA’s JPL. NASA is the United States space agency. They decided to end the mission this way because of an important find during the mission -- the possibility of life on one of Saturn’s moons.

17. crash 撞击

18. scientists and engineers 科学家和工程师

19. an important find 一项重要的发现

20. the possibility of life on one of Saturn's moons 土星其中一个卫星上生命的可能性

Saturn is the sixth planet in our solar system. It is known for its famous rings and many moons. Cassini’s study of the system of Saturn’s rings and moons brought many surprises. The researchers discovered ocean worlds that may contain the elements for life on some of Saturn's moons.

21. in solar system, in our solar system 在太阳系，在我们的太阳系

22. rings, moons 土星环，卫星

23. researchers 研究人员

24. ocean worlds 海洋世界

25. the elements for life 生命的元素

ocean worlds that may contain the elements for life 可能包含生命元素的海洋世界

动词 contain

Morgan Cable is an assistant project science systems engineer.

"At the time of its design, we had no idea that ocean worlds existed in the outer solar system."

26. in the outer solar system 在太阳系外

27. ocean worlds existed in the outer solar system 存在与外太阳系的海洋世界

plumes from canyons across Enceladus' craggy surface

木卫二的崎岖表面，峡谷上的喷发物

Another unexpected discovery came from the south pole of Enceladus, a moon that sits in one of Saturn's rings. Molly Bittner is a spacecraft operations systems engineer. She explains what they found out about Enceladus.

28. discovery 发现

29. south pole 南极

30. a spacecraft operations systems engineer 航天器操作系统工程师

"It has a liquid water ocean underneath and it shoots geysers. So these cracks open up and geysers shoot out."

31. a liquid water ocean underneath 在下面有液态水海洋

32. it shoots geysers 有间歇泉喷发

to be continued ..

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