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The American space agency NASA has offered its satellite technology to Brazil to help identify destruction in the Amazon rainforest.

美国宇航局向巴西提供卫星技术，以帮助确定亚马逊雨林的破坏情况。

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson made the offer during a recent trip to Brazil. The NASA chief visited the country’s space agency – the National Institute for Space Research – in the southeastern city of Jose dos Campos. Nelson’s trip to South America also included visits to Argentina and Colombia.

美国宇航局局长比尔·尼尔森在最近访问巴西时提出了这一提议。 美国宇航局局长参观了位于东南部城市何塞多斯坎波斯的国家航天局——国家空间研究所。 纳尔逊的南美洲之行还包括访问阿根廷和哥伦比亚。

Brazilian Science Minister Luciana Santos showed Nelson around the institute and explained some of the space agency’s programs.

巴西科学部长卢西亚娜·桑托斯带尼尔森参观了该研究所，并解释了该航天局的一些项目。

During a news conference, Nelson described one new NASA satellite that he said would be completed by January. He said the satellite, called NISAR, will even be able to capture images of what is happening in real time below the forest cover.

在新闻发布会上，纳尔逊描述了美国宇航局的一颗新卫星，他表示该卫星将于一月份完成。 他说，这颗名为 NISAR 的卫星甚至能够实时捕捉森林覆盖下发生的情况的图像。

"It is going to be able to look through the canopy of the jungle so that we can see if someone has burned the undergrowth and that would ultimately kill the big trees," Nelson said.

尼尔森说：“它将能够透过丛林的树冠观察，这样我们就可以看到是否有人烧毁了灌木丛，这最终会杀死大树。”

NASA says the new satellite will support a project called SERVIR Amazonia. It helps provide Earth science data to scientists and decision-makers across the Amazon area to record environmental changes in near real-time. The project helps predict climate threats like deforestation and food insecurity. It can also provide data to emergency workers during natural disasters.

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