主题：【欣赏】磕学美啊，就是美---1 -- ArKrXe

所有图片来自《Scientific American》网站，图解英文为原文（蓝色）汉语为半翻译，半自创（红色）。

HURRICANE FRANCES, the fourth storm of this year's Atlantic hurricane season, churns offshore in this satellite image taken on August 26. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the statistical peak of the hurricane season is September 10.

这可不是姚明的队友，它是大西西洋上生成的风暴。尽管它来自第三世界，但来美国从来不用签证！

September 17, 2004

NASA'S GENESIS CAPSULE returned to Earth on September 8, carrying samples of the solar wind. But a crash landing shattered the collector array material (above). Team scientists are increasingly optimistic that they will be able to recover valuable data from the science canister, which contains most of the samples. Ultimately, they want to measure oxygen isotopes in the solar wind, thereby elucidating the role of oxygen in the formation of the solar system.

太阳风，热烘烘，探测器，全是坑。

NASA的起源号探测器回收时摔碎了，但仍能得到一些火热的太阳风信息。

September 27, 2004

GLACIERS in West Antarctica's Amundsen Sea Sector are thinning twice as fast near the coast as they did in the 1990s, researchers report. According to study results detailed in the current issue of Science, aircraft and satellite surveys of the ice sheet indicate that the glaciers are losing 60 percent more ice to the sea than they gain from snowfall. Ice loss at this rate could raise sea level by more than 0.2 millimeter a year--as much as the previously estimated contribution from all of Antarctica.

消逝的南极冰川，融化速度见涨啊，同学们！大海大了，上海告急，纽约告急，西西河告急！

October 04, 2004

SPACESHIPONE--the first private manned spacecraft--completed a second flight past its target altitude of 100 kilometers on Monday, winning the $10-million Ansari X Prize. The prize was offered to the first nongovernment team to finance, build and launch a ship flying three people 100 kilometers up into the atmosphere twice in a two-week period.

私人宇宙飞船，小眯眯的，要一千万美元，还不是头等舱，三个人挤在一起，暧昧。

October 11, 2004

DOWNY DINOSAUR: Paleontologists have discovered in western Liaoning, China, the remains of a T. rex relative that had a coat of hairlike feathers. Dubbed Dilong paradoxus, the creature is a small, primitive tyrannosauroid, measuring just 1.6 meters in length. The fossils, described in the October 7 Nature, turned up in sediments dating to between 139 and 128 million years ago.

送给西西河的MM们，这是一只来自约1.3亿年前中国的‘毛茸茸龙’。她是辽宁龙，英文名T. rex，中等身材(身长1米6)，匀称少肉，很有骨感！对了，西西河的单身GG们，要抓紧机会了，脱光就在此时。