《旅行到宇宙边缘》英文解说

Our world. warm, comfortable, familiar...

...But when we look up, we wonder:

Do we occupy a special place in the cosmos?

Or are we merely a celestial footnote

Is the universe welcoming or hostile?

We could stand here forever, wondering

Or we could leave home on the ultimate adventure

To discover wonders

Confront horrors

Beautiful new worlds

Malevolent dark forces

The Beginning of time.

The moment of creation.

Would we have the courage to see it through?

Or would we run for home?

There's only one way to find out

Our journey through time and space begins with a single step. At the edge of space, only 60 miles up...

...just an hour's drive from home

Down there, life continues.

The traffic is awful, stocks go on trading

...and Star Trek is still showing

When we return home, if we return home...

...will it be the same?

Will we be the same?

We have to leave all this behind

To dip out toes into the vast dark ocean

On to the Moon.

Dozens of astronauts have come this way before us

Twelve walked on the moon itself

Just a quarter of a million miles from home.

Three days by spacecraft

Barren.

Desolate.

It's like a deserted battlefield

But oddly familiar.

So close, we've barely left home

Neil Armstrong's first footprints.

Looks like they were made yesterday

There's no air to change them.

They could survive for millions of years

Maybe longer than us.

Our time is limited

We need to take our own giant leap

One million miles, 5 million, 20 million miles.

We're far beyond where any human has ever ventured

Out of the darkness, a friendly face

The goddess of love, Venus.

The morning star.

The evening star.

She can welcome the new day in the east...

...say good night in the west

A sister to our planet...

...she's about the same size and gravity as Earth.

We should be safe here

But the Venus Express space probe is setting off alarms

It's telling us, these dazzling clouds, they're made of deadly sulfuric acid The atmosphere is choking with carbon dioxide

Never expected this Venus is one angry goddess.

The air is noxious, the pressure unbearable.

And it's hot, approaching 900 degrees

Stick around and we'd be corroded suffocated, crushed and baked Nothing can survive here.

Not even this Soviet robotic probe.

Its heavy armor's been trashed by the extreme atmosphere.

So lovely from Earth, up close, this goddess is hideous

She's the sister from hell.

Pockmarked by thousands of volcanoes

All that carbon dioxide is trapping the Sun's heat.

Venus is burning up.

It's global warming gone wild

Before it took hold, maybe Venus was beautiful, calm...

...more like her sister planet, Earth.

So this could be Earth's future

Where are the twinkling stars?

The beautiful spheres gliding through space?

Maybe we shouldn't be out here, maybe we should turn back

But there's something about the Sun, something hypnotic, like the Medusa Too terrible to look at, too powerful to resist

Luring us onward on, like a moth to a flame.

Wait ,there's something else, obscured by the sun

It must be Mercury.

Get too close to the sun, this is what happens.

Temperatures swing wildly here

At night, it's minus 275 degrees

e midday, it's 800 plus.

Burnt then frozen.

The MESSENGER space probe is telling us something strange.