2020-02-17-We Have Never Seen the Sun’s Top or Bottom.Solar Orbiter Will Change That.

We Have Never Seen the Sun’s Top or Bottom.Solar Orbiter Will Change That.

我们从没有见过太阳的两极，不过太阳轨道飞行器将改变这一切

The NASA-European Space Agency spacecraft,which launched Sunday, will spent the next decade closely observing the sun.

周日，美国国家航空局和欧洲航天局合作研发的太阳轨道飞行器发射升空，在未来的10年里对太阳进行密切观测。

It was a successful beginning to a mission that is a collaboration between NASA and The European Space Agency. In the day ahead,Solar Orbiter will test its instruments and prepare to initiate the complex maneuvers it needs to set course for what scientists’ hope is a decade of solar discoveries.

美国国家航空局和欧洲航天局的合作是一个好的开头，在接下来的一天里，太阳轨道飞行器会测试一切设备，并做好准备开启一系列复杂的操作，载着科学家的希望，开启10年探索之旅。

With Solar Orbiter, scientists will for the first time get a good view of the top and bottom of the sun. Until now, almost all of the solar-watching spacecraft have orbited in the ecliptic, or the same plane that planet travels around the sun.

在太阳轨道飞行器的帮助下，科学家们将会首次看太阳的两术，到目前为止，几乎所有的太阳观察器都是在围绕太阳的黄道上运行，也就是行星绕太阳运行的同一面。

The spacecraft’s 10 scientific instruments are a mix. Some measure what is happening directly around the spacecraft, like the magnetic fields and particles of the solar wind. Others take pictures of what is occurring on the sun.

太阳轨道飞行器装有一组科学仪器，共10台。有些观测飞行器周围磁场和太阳风粒子等正在发生的活动现象；其它的则拍摄太阳表面的当下活动。

Remember the caution that you should notlook directly at the sun? Solar Orbiter’s cameras have to do just that, and at adistance where the sunlight is 13 times as intense. Three peepholes in the heat shield will open for 10 days at a time to allow the instruments to collect the data. The assorted cameras also have heat-resistant windows (think of them as scientific sunglasses) as protection.

还记得不要直视太阳的警告吗？太阳轨道飞行器的成像仪则必须要“直视”太阳，而且它所在的位置，阳光强度是地球上的13倍。为了让搭载仪器收集数据，飞行器隔热罩下的3个小孔会每次打开10天。各类成像仪也配有耐热镜（把它们想象成科学太阳镜）作为保护。

A collaboration between/ in collaboration with

This new product is a collaboration between A and B company.

The EOE has worked in collaboration with Imagine to launch this meeting tonight.

In the day ahead /during the next day 明天

In the days ahead 未来的几天里

Initiate vt. To start to begin 开始/发起

A group of people can initiate a discussion or a debate.

A company might initiate a project

Maneuver n.技能，操作，演习

Ecliptic adj.黄道的n.黄道

Caution a word of caution 提醒一句

Do just that 就这么做