The tectonic plates that make up the world's crust 构成地壳的各个构造板块 grind against each other, 相互挤压 building up huge amounts of stress. 逐渐累积起巨大的压力 The stress produces cracks known as faults. 压力造成了被...
American's golden state 加州号称美国的黄金之州 lives in the constant shadow of an enormous earthquake, 却始终笼罩在大地震的阴影之下 and because of this they throw more money 也正因为此 他们在地震研究上 into study...
It's Sunday 11th May, 2008. 2008年5月11日星期五 For millions of people, 对芸芸众生来说 it's just another ordinary day. 不过又是寻常的一天罢了 Meanwhile, 其间 at earthquake monitoring stations around the world, 世界各地的地...
With one you could power a small village. 一个太阳能碟能满足一座小村的能源需求 A field of them could power a city. 一大批则能供给一座城市所需的能源 Each system produces about 25 kw 一套系统的发电量是25千瓦...
As the world warms up, 在地球日益暖化的今天 the sun may yet prove an unlikely source of cooling. 太阳也许能提供意想不到的冷却效果 The greenhouse effect could be stopped 我们可以藉由利用太阳的热力 by harnessing i...
The auroras dancing displays of celestial light 在天空中熠熠生辉的极光 are caused by particles from the solar storm smashing 是太阳风暴夹带的微粒 through the magnetic field at the poles. 撞击地球两极磁场的结果 When the...
The key difference of course is that a sunspot's 最关键的不同点在于太阳黑子 an awful lot bigger and so the total energy, 大得多，所以太阳磁场内 or the amount of energy in the magnetic field 所含的总能量大得惊人 on th...
It sits a million miles away from the Earth 它位于距地球一百万里处的 at the Lagrangian point 拉格朗日点 where the gravitational pull from the Earth and the sun is equal. 此处地球和太阳的引力相等 Fixed in space it has an u...
When the sunspots disappeared something on the sun changed 太阳黑子消失时，太阳表面的变化导致 that cooled the Earth down. 地球温度降低 But it wasn't that the solar output changed. 改变的并不是太阳的输出量 No matter...
And after a while a pattern emerged. 久而久之，人们就归纳出一个模式 If you observe sun spots over several years, 若连续观察太阳黑子好几年 they come and go with an about an eleven year cycle. 会发现它们约每隔11年会周...
