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Eugene Cernan on the moon:“Okay, here we go.”
来自月球的尤金·赛尔南：“好的，我们开始吧。”
Astronaut Eugene Cernan firing up the Apollo 17 lunar roving vehicle for the first time, back in 1972.
追朔到1972年，宇航员尤金·赛尔南第一次发射了月球探险车阿波罗17号。
“The front wheels turn. I can't see the rear ones, but I know the front ones turn, and it does move. Hallelujah.”
“前轮转弯。我看不见后轮了，但我知道前轮在转动。哈利路亚!”
The astronauts drove their moon buggy 35.74 kilometers, more than any other NASA off-world rover. That mark stood for more than four decades. But now it belongs to the tiny rover Opportunity, still spinning its wheels on Mars.
宇航员驾驶月球探险车跑了35.74千米，比其它任何外空间探测车的里程都要长。这个记录保持了四十多年。但是现在的冠军属于机遇号，它此刻仍然在火星表面行驶着。
On May 16th, Opportunity's odometer hit 35.76 kilometers to roll into NASA's record books. The robot is definitely more tortoise than hare—it took Opportunity almost a decade on Mars to break the record that Apollo 17 set in three days on the moon.
5月16号，机遇号的里程超过了35.76千米，被载入到美航局的史册。机器人的速度超慢，机遇号几乎用了10年的时间才打破阿波罗17号3天就完成的记录。
Next up: the Soviet Lunokhod 2 moon rover, which tracked some 37 kilometers. So Opportunity now has the U.S. record, but it still has about a kilometer to go to break the world—or should I say solar system—record.
接下来：苏联的月球车2号行驶了37千米。所以机遇号目前只是美国的记录，要想打破世界记录——或者说太阳系的记录还需要再走1千米。
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