中文翻譯:
在遙遠的太空中，有一個神秘的飛碟從外太空降落在美國的猶他州沙漠。這事件發生在2004年，但裡面並沒有外星人哦！這個飛碟其實是NASA發射的Genesis樣本回收艙，目的是要收集太陽風的粒子。當時，它是自2001年啟航的Genesis太空船的一部分。這個飛碟因為降落時降得太快，超過每小時300公里，結果降落時傘不如預期開啟，摔了下來。不過，儘管飛碟摔了，裡面的許多樣本依然保存得很好，讓科學家們可以進行分析，發現了有關太陽的組成和太陽系中不同元素豐度的新資訊。這些結果讓我們更了解太陽和行星是如何形成的，這是一個非常有趣的故事！
原文:
A flying saucer from outer space crash-landed in the Utah desert after being tracked by radar and chased by helicopters. The year was 2004, and no space aliens were involved. The saucer, pictured here, was the Genesis sample return capsule, part of a human-made robot Genesis spaceship launched in 2001 by NASA itself to study the Sun. The unexpectedly hard landing at over 300 kilometers per hour occurred because the parachutes did not open as planned. The Genesis mission had been orbiting the Sun collecting solar wind particles that are usually deflected away by Earth’s magnetic field. Despite the crash landing, many return samples remained in good enough condition to analyze. Genesis-related discoveries included new details about the composition of the Sun and how the abundance of some types of elements differ across the Solar System. These results have provided intriguing clues into details of how the Sun and planets formed billions of years ago. Almost Hyperspace: Random APOD Generator
來源:NASA每日圖片
