It is clear that imperatives other than profits or nationalism will have to compel human beings to leave their tracks on the planet's reddish surface.
很明显,除了利益和民族主义,其他紧急的事物将迫使人类在地球表面留下他们的足迹。
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Although their missions blended commercial and political-military imperatives, the explorers involved all accomplished some significant science simply by going where no scientists had gone before.