JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE
Our world. warm, comfortable,
...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 univer 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 e 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
...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
...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.
旅行到宇宙边缘
我们的世界 温暖、舒适 熟悉
但当我们仰望天空 我们想知道
我们是居住在宇宙中一个独特的地方
或仅仅是太空的小小一隅?
宇宙是友善的还是充满敌意？
我们是一直站在这里猜想
还是离开故园来一次终极探险
去发现奇观
直面恐怖
美丽的新世界
邪恶的黑暗势力
时间的起点
创世的时刻
我们是否有坚持到底的勇气
或是逃回家？
想找到答案只有一个方法
我们开始一步步时空之旅
离地面60英里（100公里）高度,就是太空边缘...
仅仅一个小时车程
地面上，生活在继续
车水马龙 商业繁忙
《星际迷航》还在播出
当我们回到家 如果我们还能回家
一切还会如初吗？
我们还是原来的我们吗？
我们必须抛掉这一切
步入前方广阔的黑暗海洋
前往月球
Dozens of astronauts have come this way before us
Twelve walked on the moon itlf
Just a quarter of a million miles from home.
Three days by spacecraft
Barren.
Desolate.
It's like a derted battlefield
But oddly familiar.
So clo, 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
...say good night in the west
A sister to
...she's about the same size and gravity as Earth.
We should be safe here
But the Venus Express space probe is tting off alarms
It's telling us, the dazzling clouds, they're made of deadly sulfuric acid
The atmosphere is choking with carbon dioxide
Never expected this Venus is one angry goddess.
在我们之前，已有数十名宇航员前往月球
其中12人踏上了月球
月球距离地球只有25万英里（40万公里）
坐宇宙飞船需要3天
贫瘠
荒芜
月球看起来就像一个遗弃的战场
但是惊人的熟悉
那么近，就像我们几乎没有离开家
尼尔·阿姆斯特朗的第一个脚印
看起来就像在昨天留下的
那里没有能够改变脚印的空气
这些足迹会存在数百万年
或许比人类存在的时间都长
我们的时间是有限的
我们必须自己踏出自己的一大步
1百万英里 5百万英里 2千万英里
远征前人未曾到达的地方
一个友善的面孔从黑暗中浮现
爱之女神 金星
启明星
长庚星
它可以在迎接新的一天...
还会在西方道晚安
金星是地球的姊妹星...
...大小和引力与地球相仿
我们在这里应该是安全的
但是金星快车空间探测器却时刻提醒着我们
告诉我们那些耀眼的云层是由致命的硫酸构成
金星的大气层充斥着二氧化碳
没想到金星是一个愤怒的女神
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 clo, 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,
...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 el, obscured by the sun
It must be Mercury.
Get too clo to the sun, this is what happens.
Temperatures swing wildly here
At night, it's minus 275 degrees
...come midday, it's 800 plus.
Burnt then frozen.
The MESSENGER space probe is telling us something strange.
For its size, Mercury has a powerful gravitational pull.
It's a huge ball of iron, covered with a thin veneer of rock
有毒的空气 难以忍受的压力
还有炙热 温度接近900度（500°C）
多呆一会 我们会被腐蚀、窒息、压碎和烤焦
任何东西都无法在这里生存
即使像前联金星号机器人探测器
它的厚重装甲已被这极端的大气环境给毁了
从地球看她是多么可爱 近观这个女神却是可怕的
她是来自地狱的姊妹
数千座火山犹如长满了痘疮
大气层中的二氧化碳留住了太阳热量
金星正在燃烧
这是无节制的全球气候变暖
在它变暖之前或许是美丽而平静的
.
..很像她的姊妹星 地球
也许就它是我们地球的未来
那些闪烁的星星哪里去了？
美丽的圆球滑进了太空？
或许我们不应该来这里 我们应该回去
但是太阳有催眠般的魔力 象美杜莎（古希腊神话中3位蛇发女怪之一）
可怕的让人无视，也无法抗拒她的力量
我们继续前进 像飞蛾扑火
等等，这里还有其他东西被太阳炙烤
它一定是水星
太靠近太阳，就会这样
这里温度剧烈变化
晚上会到零下275度（-170°C）
...正午则超过800度（400°C）
烧焦再被冰冻
信使号空间探测器发现了一些奇怪的现象
相对体积来说，小小的水星具有强大的引力
它就像一个裹着薄薄岩石层的大铁球
The core of what was once a much larger planet.
So where's the rest of it?
Maybe a stray planet slammed into Mercury
...blasting away its outer layers in a deadly game of cosmic pinball
Whole worlds on the loo careening wildly across
...destroying anything in their path
And we're in the middle of it
Vulnerable, expod, small
Everything is telling us to turn back.
But who could defy this?
The Sun in all its mesmerizing splendor
Our light,
.
..everything we do is controlled by the Sun
Depends on it
It's the Greek god Helios driving his chariot across the sky
The Egyptian god Ra reborn every day
The summer solstice sun rising at Stonehenge.
For millions
...this was as clo as it got to staring into the face of God
It's so
...it is burned out, we wouldn't know about it for eight minutes
It's so Big, you could fit one million Earths inside it
But who needs number? we've got the real thing
We e it every day, a familiar face in our sky
Now, up clo, it's unrecognizable.
A turbulent a of incandescent gas
The thermometer pushes 10,000 degrees
can't imagine how hot the core is ,could be tens of millions of degrees
Hot enough to transform millions of tons of matter into energy every cond
More than all the energy ever made by mankind
这是一颗大行星留下的核心
其他部分去哪里了呢？
或许是一个迷路的行星猛地撞进了水星
...在一场致命的宇宙弹球游戏中水星的外层被炸掉了
这些游荡的行星在宇宙中疯狂地掠过
...毁掉他们道路上的一切
我们就在其中
脆弱、裸露而且渺小
这一且都在告诉我们该回去了
但是谁又能抗拒的了
散发着迷人光彩的太阳？
我们的光线，我们的生命
我们的一切都被太阳控制着
依赖于它
它是驾着战车穿越天际的希腊美男子太阳神
是每天重生的埃及神“拉”（埃及神话里的太阳神）
以及巨石阵夏至的日出
数百万年来
我们对太阳神的景仰止于远观
由于实在太远
如果太阳熄灭了，8分钟后我们才会知道
太阳大到可以装下100万颗地球
谁需要这些数字呢 我们看到了它的真面目
我们每天看到太阳挂在天空的熟悉面孔
现在近观它，又陌生起来
由炙热气体形成的汹涌大海
表面温度超过1万度（5000°C）
难以置信的是它的核心温度则可以到数千万度
这里热到足以能够每秒钟把数百万吨物质转化成能量
超过人类有史以来产生的所有能量
Dwarfing the power of all the nuclear weapons on Earth.
Back home, we u this energy for light and heat
But up clo, there's nothing comforting about the Sun.
Its electrical and magnetic forces erupt in giant molten gas loops.
Some are larger than a dozen Earths
More powerful than 10 million volcanoes.
And when they burst through they expo cooler
...making sunspots.
A fraction cooler than their surrounding, sunspots
...But they're hotter than anything on Earth.
And massive up to 20 times the size of Earth.
But one day, all this will stop
The Sun's fuel will be spent.
And when it dies, the Earth will follow
This god creates life,
...and demands we keep out distance
This comet strayed too clo
The Sun's heat is boiling
...creating a tail that stretches for millions of miles.
It's freezing in here.
There's no doubt where this comet's from, the icy wastes of deep space
But all this steam and geyrs
...it's the Sun again, melting the comet's frozen heart.
Strange.
A kind of vast, dirty snowball, covered in grimy tar
Tiny grains of what looks like
.
..prerved on ice, since who
...maybe even the beginning of the solar system.
Say a comet like this crashed into the young Earth billions of years ago.
Maybe it delivered organic material and water
...the raw ingredients of life
