4 One giant leap

Chapter Four ONE GIANT LEAP... Europa grew larger and larger as the Beagle drew closer. It looked like a frosty round ball against the endless blackness of space. Roshni fired the retro-rockets to slow them down, and the Beagle began to orbit around the huge moon. Ollie looked down at Europa's craggy surface. "I wouldn't go there for my vacation.

第四章一大步…… 随着小猎犬号越来越近，木卫二变得越来越大。 在无尽的黑暗空间中，它看起来像一个结霜的圆球。 罗什尼发射了倒退火箭来减缓他们的速度，小猎犬号开始绕着巨大的月球运行。 奥利俯视着木卫二嶙峋的表面。 “我不会去那里度假。

It looks like it's covered in ice." "It is," Roshni said. "But it's only frozen on the surface. There are saltwater oceans under the ice." Ollie raised his eyebrows. "Like we have on Earth?" he asked. Roshni nodded. "Yes! And better still, scientists think there might even be some simple life-forms swimming around down there." Ollie's mouth gaped open. "You mean… aliens?" he said.

看起来它被冰覆盖了。” “是的，”罗什尼说。“但它只在表面冻结。 冰下有咸水海洋。” 奥利扬起眉毛。 “就像我们在地球上一样？”他问。 Roshni点点头。“是啊!更好的是，科学家们认为甚至可能有一些简单的生命形式在那里游泳。” 奥利张大了嘴。“你是说……外星人？”他说。

"They would be tiny little microbes," Roshni explained. "You wouldn't be able to see them without a microscope. But, yes— we might be flying over alien life!" She got goose bumps just thinking about it. "Cool!" Ollie spotted something and peered closer. "What's that thing? Did the aliens build it?" Roshni saw it, too. It looked like a metal umbrella. She sat bolt upright. "That's the antenna from the Odin probe! Come on, we need to get it back!"

“它们可能是微小的微生物，”罗什尼解释说。 “没有显微镜是看不见它们的。 但是，是的——我们可能正在飞过外星生命！”她一想到那件事就起鸡皮疙瘩。 “酷!”奥利发现了什么东西，就凑近了看。 “那是什么东西？”是外星人建造的吗？”Roshni也看到了。 它看起来像一把金属伞。 她笔直地坐着。“那是奥丁探测器的天线！”快点，我们得把它抢回来！”

Working fast, the two of them flew the Beagle as close to the antenna as they could. They were getting more used to the controls now. The antenna tumbled through space, high above the surface of Europa. Roshni wished she could just open a window and grab it, but that wasn't possible in a spaceship. All the air would rush out. This was going to be tricky. "How are we going to get it?" Ollie wondered.

他们俩飞快地把小猎犬号飞到离天线尽可能近的地方。 他们现在越来越习惯控制了。 天线在木卫二表面上方的太空中翻滚。 Roshni希望她能打开一扇窗户，抓住它，但这在宇宙飞船上是不可能的。 所有的空气都会冲出。 这将会很棘手。 “我们怎样才能得到它呢？”奥利很好奇。

The Beagle made urgent beeps and wobbled around, jostling Roshni and Ollie in their seats. "It's trying to tell us something!" Roshni said. "What is it, Beagle? Should we use a robot arm?" FNAAARP! said the Beagle irritably. "Can we pull it in with a tractor beam, or something?" Ollie guessed. The Beagle flashed red lights in a big "X" on the dashboard and buzzed like computer- game sound effects. No matter what Roshni and Ollie guessed, the Beagle just got more frustrated. It didn't want them to get the antenna with a harpoon gun, a big magnet, or a wad of chewing gum on the end of a string. Roshni was rapidly running out of ideas— and the antenna was slowly dropping down

小猎犬发出急迫的哔哔声，摇摇晃晃地转来转去，把罗什尼和奥利挤在座位上。 “它想告诉我们什么！”Roshni说。 “怎么了，小猎犬？”我们应该使用机械臂吗？”FNAAARP !小猎犬烦躁地说。 “我们能用牵引波束之类的东西把它拉进来吗？”奥利猜。 小猎犬号的仪表盘上闪烁着大大的“X”形红灯，嗡嗡作响，就像电脑游戏的音效。 不管罗什尼和奥利猜了什么，小猎犬都变得更沮丧了。 它不想让他们用鱼叉枪、大磁铁或绳子末端的一团口香糖来获得天线。 Roshni很快就没主意了，天线也慢慢地掉了下来

toward Europa. If they didn't grab it in time, it would smash to pieces. She looked around the Beagle's cockpit to see if they'd missed anything. Over to the right, she found a door she hadn't noticed before. She pressed a button and it slid open. Inside was a compartment that was as tall as she was, containing two white space suits with round helmets. "Wow!" she said.

向欧罗巴。如果他们不及时抓住它，它就会碎成碎片。 她环视了一下小猎犬号的驾驶舱，看看他们是否漏掉了什么。 在右边，她发现了一扇她之前没有注意到的门。 她按下一个按钮，门就滑开了。 里面有一个和她一样高的隔间，里面装着两件带着圆形头盔的白色太空服。 “哇！”她说。