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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Criticism Weighs Heavy on New Solar System With Pluto as a 'Dwarf Planet'By Mario Ritter and produced by Brianna Blake Broadcast: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 VOICE ONE: This is S

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IN THE NEWS - Pluto and Dark Matter Both Star in a Busy Week for AstronomersBy Brianna Blake Broadcast: Saturday, August 26, 2006 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Pluto compared to other so

DEVELOPMENT REPORT – How to Make a Solar Water Heater

DEVELOPMENT REPORT – How to Make a Solar Water Heater By Gary Garriott Broadcast: Monday, November 29, 2004 I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report. Solar water heaters save o

VOA慢速英语--科学家发现太阳系中最古老的天体

Alien Asteroid Could Be Oldest Object in Our Solar System Astronomers have been closely watching an object that travels in an orbit around our sun. Astronomers say this object -- an asteroid -- circles the sun in the same orbital path as the planet J

VOA慢速英语2014 罗塞塔航天器捕捉到一颗彗星

AS IT IS 2014-08-07 Rosetta Spacecraft Catches a Comet 罗塞塔航天器捕捉到一颗彗星 After a 10-year trip, a European spacecraft has, for the first time, entered an orbit around a comet. The European Space Agencys Rosetta spacecraft began a

科学家称发现太阳系新行星

Is There a Ninth Planet in Our Solar System? 科学家称发现太阳系新行星 Scientists said they have found evidence of a giant planet far out in our solar system. In a statement, the California Institute of Technology Caltech -- said this plan

VOA慢速英语--朱诺号探测器进入木星轨道

Juno Spacecraft Enters Jupiter Orbit 朱诺号探测器进入木星轨道 American scientists cheered loudly as their spacecraft, called Juno, entered Jupiters orbit Monday night. Juno, welcome to Jupiter! The scientists are with the U.S. space agenc

2006年VOA标准英语-Space Shuttle Lands in Florida

By David McAlary Washington 22 December 2006 Space shuttle Discovery landing in Florida The U.S. space shuttle Discovery has returned to Earth after a mission to continue assembly of the International Space Station. VOA's David McAlary reports. Disc

VOA标准英语2010年-India Plugs into Low-Cost Solar Techno

India seems to excel at making things smaller and cheaper. The $2,500 car and the $35 computer are just two of the country's latest innovations. Now, India increasingly is focused on low-cost solar technology. The front lines of that effort are seen

2017年CRI China's cargo spacecraft refuels space lab in orbit

China's first cargo spacecraft has refueled the Tiangong-2 space lab in orbit for the first time. Tianzhou-1, which was launched April 20th from Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province, successfully completed an automated dockin

PBS高端访谈:揭秘矮行星--谷神星的秘密

JUDY WOODRUFF: Let's look at a space mission that's generating lots of interest and excitement. It's the mission to orbit the dwarf planet Ceres by the NASA spacecraft named Dawn. It arrived in March, and as the spacecraft has gotten closer in recent

万物简史 第33期:走进太阳系(11)

But let's pretend again that we have made it to the Oort cloud. The first thing you might notice is how very peaceful it is out here. We're a long way from anywhere nowso far from our own Sun that it's not even the brightest star in the sky. It is a

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EXPLORATIONS - How the Distant World of Eris Caused Big Changes Here on EarthBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: An artist's picture of E

MESSENGER Probe Sends First Mercury Images

The U.S. space agency(代理中介) has released the first ever image taken of the surface of Mercury from a spacecraft orbiting the planet. The black and white image, posted on the NASA website Tuesday, shows a surface pocked with craters of varying

VOA常速英语2007-Washington DC Becomes Solar Village

By Paul Sisco Washington 22 October 2007 Twenty college and university teams from around the world competed inthe recentSolar Decathlon that is held every two years in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Energy Department sponsors the event, and this year's wi

Orbit tower unveiled in London's Olympic park

LONDON, May 11 (Xinhua) -- A controversial steel tower was unveiled in the Olympic park of London on Friday, about two and a half months before opening of the Games, which was hoped to become of a new icon of the city and bring more visitors. The tow

NASA Messenger Probe Set for Historic Orbit Around Mercury

The U.S. space agency NASAs Messenger probe（正直的，廉洁的 ） is scheduled to reach Mercury later this week, and become the first spacecraft to orbit the planet closest to the sun. During Messengers year-long orbital mission, scientists exp

MESSENGER Spacecraft Will Be First to Orbit Planet Mercury

The U.S. space probe MESSENGER is poised to enter orbit around Mercury（水银） early Friday, Universal time, capping a nearly seven-year journey to the solar systems innermost planet. Scientists with the U.S. space agency, NASA, hope the orbiting

NASA's twin probes reach lunar orbit

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Twin U.S. spacecraft to study the moon from crust to core put themselves into the lunar orbit on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, the country's space agency said. The second Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory, o

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-17

You never guess the dangers on the ground from orbit, except maybe for this, massive, double-barreled storms hovering above the poles. Of this, what we called dipole features trailing around, we don't know what, really what they are, but the whole fe