遥感专业英语11.ppt

Scientific English 10 Chen Shengbo Speaking Practice Popular English Information 只含一个单词的句子 Listening Practice Special English of VOA Glossary-10 Paragraph Translating Planetary Remote Sensing-The Exploration of Extraterrestrial bodies As on the Earth, layering - which gives rise to stratification - can be caused by several processes. On Mars, layering from dust deposits laid down in the present and by inference in the past and layering from impact ejecta (probably the dominant process) build-up are established mechanisms that account for perhaps the majority of stratified sequences. As we have seen several times on this page, there is now strong evidence for the action of water from streams and other outpouring mechanisms operating in the martian past. Some students of the martian surface argue that at one or more time(s) in the past, there were lakes and perhaps even oceans on Mars that existed when the martian climate was warmer than today - gone now because most of the water has either dispersed into outer space or become frozen in the upper reaches of deposits near the surface. James Head III and his colleagues at Brown University have interpreted evidence, including cliffs and terraces that may indicate shoreline erosion, of at least two stages of oceanic concentrations of water in the northern lowlands. Here is their map: Many Mars images have been collected that show distinct layering, as will be displayed on the next page. We will preview those images by showing here just one typical set of layers exposed in West Candor Chasm, an auxiliary canyon off Valles Marineris: Various explanations are put forth as to their nature: Are they marine sedimentary, lake beds, volcanic flows, volcanic ash deposits, or other unknown types, or as seems likely a combination of these modes of layering? The occurrence of marine sedimentary layers on Mars is still much debated, with as yet no direct proof. But, like the Earth and its Moon, layered materials found on the