英语听力：自然百科 行星旅行：土星 Saturn—1

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“Saturn is the most photogenic planet in all the solar system. 

 

Some of the pictures are to die for.”

 

But the postcards only tell part of the story.

 

“Beauty is only skin deep. It really is rolling and seething² inside.”

 

Soar above the planet with its six-sided storms for ringside action.

 

“I could just imagine what it might be like to like hold a ring particle in my hand?” 

 

Even more mystery surrounds impressive Fountains of Enceladus where the secrets of life might spring from the moons salty geysers.

 

“This is the little moon that has it all, and the samples are coming out in space. 

 

There’s a big sign there. Free examples: take one. ”

 

Then drop by the big orange moon Titan and descend³ beneath its smoggy veil.

 

“It would be one of the seven wonders of the solar system.”

 

Take the titanian skies for a magical mystery tour.

 

The balloon jus allows extraordinary possibilities for exploring Titan.

 

Drift over propane lakes, flammable sand dunes⁴ and methane⁵ streams.

 

“You could actually stand next to a bubbling brook⁶ of liquid methane. I sometimes wonder, what would that sound like?”

 

But nothing is as it seems here.

 

“If you put your hand on a lava⁷ flow on titan, you wouldn’t burn your hand, you would freeze it.”

 

All this, and more, and only a billion miles from home, ready to take off? There has never been a better time to venture where no human has gone before, to follow in the footsteps of our robot pioneer and explore the planet of our solar system.

 

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