And they designed and built the instruments to endure the flights to Uranus and Neptune just on the off chance that the mission would be approved for that long and that's what happened.

他们设计并制造了仪器来确保“旅行者”号能完成王星和海王星的行任务，同时希冀它能获批的更远，这也确实发生了。

“It is Uranus, my dear, ” said Professor Trelawney, peering down at the chart.

“是王星，亲爱的。”特里劳妮教授低头看着图表，说道。

And Uranus will keep doing the side shuffle like nobody's watching.

王星会继续它的旁曳步。

Uranus can be glimpsed with binoculars or a telescope under good conditions.

王星可以在良好的条件下用双筒望远镜或望远镜瞥见。

Speaking of “ice, ” here's a really weird thing: Studies have shown that the pressure inside Uranus can break up methane molecules, squeezing the carbon in them so tightly that it actually forms diamonds!

说到“冰”，有一件很奇怪的事情：研究表明，王星内部的力可以分解甲烷分子，将其中的碳缩得非常之紧，以至于实际上它都形成了钻石！

But that's not all, the study also used images of Uranus gathered over the years to figure out why the planet appears to change colors with the seasons.

但这还不是全部，这项研究还利用多年来收集的王星图像来弄清楚为什么这颗行星会随着季节而改变颜色。

As early as 1821, astronomers noticed that Uranus's orbit was behaving in a way that could best be explained by the gravity of another planet tugging on it.

早在1821年，文学家就注意到王星的运行轨道，很有可能受到了另一颗行星引力的。

But it's the orientation of the orbits of these moons and the rings themselves that singles out Uranus as the strangest of worlds.

但正是这些卫星和星环本身的轨道方向，使王星成为最奇特的世界。

The researchers' findings added a whopping 28 seconds to Uranus's previously estimated rotational period. And hey, every second on Uranus is precious.

研究人员的发现将之前估算的王星自转周期增加了整整28秒。王星上的每一秒都弥足珍贵。

Uranus axis is so tilted it actually looks like the planet is rotating on its side.

王星有一个奇怪的倾斜的“水平”旋转轴，因此它看起来就像在一个平面上滚动。

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was collected when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 flew past it in 1986.

关于王星的许多知识都源于1986年NASA的旅行者2号机器人航器经过它时收集的信息。

You might know Babbage as the father of computing and Herschel as the guy who found Uranus.

你可能知道巴贝奇是计算机之父，而赫歇尔是王星的发现者。

Neptune is more massive than Uranus; 17 times Earth's mass, versus just 14.5 for Uranus.

海王星比王星更大；是球质量的17倍，而王星只有球质量的14.5倍。

Unlike Neptune, Uranus does not generate much internal heat.

不同于海王星，王星没有产生太多的内热。

For a better estimate, scientists used more than a decade's worth of Hubble data to track the movement of Uranus's auroras, which helped them zero in on the actual location of the planet's magnetic poles.

为了更精确估算， 科学家们利用了超过十年的哈勃数据来追踪王星极光的移动，这帮助他们准确定位了该行星磁极的实际位置。

If a roughly earth-sized object smashed into Uranus late in its formation history, then that would have had the proper amount of momentum to basically knock it on its side.

如果在王星形成历史的后期，有一个大致球大小的物体撞上了王星，那么这将会产生适当的动量，足以能把王星撞倾斜。

" A future mission to Uranus is crucial to understanding not only the planet and magnetosphere, but also its atmosphere, rings and moons, " Jasinski said.

“未来前王星的任务不仅对了解这颗行星和磁层，而且对了解它的大气层、光环和卫星都是至关重要的。”

Just how different is Uranus dance?

王星的舞蹈到底有多不同？

Uranus looks bizarre, the rings, rather than looking like that when you look for a telescope, they're actually orbiting up and over the top of the planet.

王星看起来很奇怪，星环并不是你在望远镜里看到的那样，它们实际上是在王星的顶部绕轨道运行。

While Uranus has a hazy, mostly unremarkable atmosphere, Neptune has active and easily visible weather patterns, which gives it a more distinctive appearance.

王星的大气朦胧，大部分无法看清，而海王星气象则十分活跃且清晰可见，所以看起来非常特别。