太阳系的奇迹

基本信息中文名: BBC 太阳系的奇迹

英文名: BBC Wonders Of The Solar System

集数: 全5集

发行时间: 2010年03月07日

制作发行: BBC TWO

地区: 英国

语言: 英语

内容简介Professor Brian Cox visits some of the most stunning locations on earth to describe how the laws of nature have carved natural wonders across the solar system.

布赖恩考克斯教授游历地球上一些最令人惊奇的地点，向观众展示和剖析自然法则所造就的太阳系的伟大自然奇观。

In this first episode Brian explores the powerhouse of them all, the sun. In India he witnesses a total solar eclipse - when the link to the light and heat that sustains us is cut off for a few precious minutes.

在第一节中，布莱恩探索的是所有这些的能源工厂——太阳。在印度，维持我们光与热的链接被切断的几分钟里，他目击了一次日全食的全过程。

But heat and light are not the only power of the sun over the solar system. In Norway, Brian watches the battle between the sun's wind and earth, as the night sky glows with the northern lights.

但是，光与热并不是太阳在太阳系中唯一的能量。布莱恩在挪威看到了太阳风与地球的战斗，那就是夜空中的北极光。

Beyond earth, the solar wind continues, creating dazzling aurora on other planets. Brian makes contact with Voyager, a probe that has been travelling since its launch 30 years ago. Now 14 billion kilometres away, Voyager has just detected the solar wind is beginning to peter out. But even here we haven't reached the end of the sun's rule.

在地球之外，太阳风也在其他星球上创造着绚丽的极光。布莱恩调查了旅行者号探测器的数据，至今它已在宇宙中飞行了30年，距地球140亿公里之遥。旅行者号刚刚探测到太阳风的威力开始减弱，但即使在那里，我们仍然没有逃脱太阳的统治。

Brian explains how its greatest power, gravity, reaches out for hundreds of billions of kilometres, where the lightest gravitational touch encircles our solar system in a mysterious cloud of comets.

布莱恩解释了为何太阳强大的能量和引力能影响到千亿公里之外，在一个神秘的彗星云里， 最微弱的引力影响环绕着我们的太阳系。