卫星在南印度洋发现122件漂浮物

Malaysia has disclosed new satellite images of 122 objects that were spotted near two earlier sets of debris in the southern Indian Ocean, providing the latest clue in the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, writes Jeremy Grant in Kuala Lumpur.

马来西亚公布了在南印度洋发现122个物体的最新卫星照片，它们位于此前发现的两组碎片附近。这为搜寻失踪的马来西亚航空公司(Malaysia Airlines) MH370航班提供了最新线索。

The latest images, provided by Airbus Defence and Space, a division of France’s Airbus Group, showed the objects – between 1m and 23m in length – in an area of about 400 sq km, approximately 2,500km southwest of the Australian city of Perth.

最新图片来自法国空客集团(Airbus Group)下属的空客防务及航天公司(Airbus Defence and Space)。图片显示，这些物体的长度在1米至23米之间，散落在距澳大利亚城市珀斯西南约2500公里处一个大约400平方公里的海域。

“Some of the objects appeared to be bright, possibly indicating solid materials,” Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia’s defence and acting transport minister, told a daily briefing.

“一些物体看起来是反光的，可能表明它们是坚固材料，”马来西亚国防部长和代理交通部长希沙姆丁•侯赛因(Hishammuddin Hussein)在每日通报会上表示。

The images had been taken on March 23, the same day Malaysia received earlier French satellite images. These, and a third set of Chinese images, were in about the same area of ocean.

图片摄于3月23日，同日马来西亚收到了之前法国卫星拍摄到的图像。这些图像和来自中国的一组图像基本上拍摄的是同一片海域。

Improved weather conditions have allowed the Australian-led search for the missing jet to stretch into a ninth day.

由于气象状况改善，澳大利亚领头的失踪客机搜寻行动进入第9天。

The hunt involved 12 aircraft from Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and the US.

参与搜寻的有来自澳大利亚、中国、日本、韩国、新西兰和美国的12架飞机。

Searchers are running out of time to locate the aircraft’s black box recorder, which is estimated to have 30 days of battery life.

留给搜寻人员寻找飞机黑匣子的时间越来越少。黑匣子的电池寿命估计只有30天。

The Malaysia Airlines aircraft disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8.

这架从吉隆坡飞往北京的马航客机于3月8日失踪。