terrestrial planet

基本解释

And the Terrestrial Planet Finder, an even more ambitious project that might have been able to study alien atmospheres, has been postponed indefinitely.
而作爲將可能具有研究外星大氣功能的更具雄心的項目，“類地行星搜索者”已被無限期延期。
America's Terrestrial Planet Finderand Europe's Darwin are still on the drawing board, but astronomerswould like to use them to identify “biomarkers” such as oxygen in theatmospheres of exoplanets.
雖然美國的“類地行星發現者”計劃和歐洲的“達爾文”計劃在籌備之中，但是天文學家希望用它們來確定系外行星的大氣層中是否有“生命標記”，例如：氧氣。
She's also interested in determining what conditions other than a liquid ocean might help initiate life on a terrestrial planet.
她也有興趣找出什麽樣的環境比陸地行星上的液躰海洋更能有助於産生生命。

But, in fact, they were also likely responsible for triggering terrestrial planet formation.
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The kilometre-wide separation of the component satellites of Terrestrial Planet Finder should allow it to see planets in distant solar systems—a problem akin to looking for moths flying around a football-stadium arc light that is several hundred kilometres away.
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Japan herself is one of 35 terrestrial hotspots in the world, a region of the planet containing huge arrays of biodiversity found nowhere else that are under threat from humans.
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