VOA慢速英语2016--NASA发现丢失的宇宙飞船
时间：2019-01-12 作者：英语课 分类：2016年VOA慢速英语(八)月
AS IT IS 2016-08-26 NASA Finds ‘Lost’ Spacecraft NASA发现丢失的宇宙飞船
The American space agency, NASA says it has again made contact with a spacecraft studying the sun and space weather.
NASA said it lost contact with the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories 1, also known as the STEREO-B spacecraft, two years ago.
Communications with the spacecraft were lost after NASA attempted to try to prevent overheating of the spaceship’s antenna 2.
The space agency said contact with STEREO-B was restored last week.
NASA has another spacecraft that is nearly identical to STEREO-B called STEREO-A. It also was launched in 2006 to study the sun and space weather. STEREO-A is working normally.
NASA said it will now test STEREO-B to see if the spacecraft’s instruments and sensors 3 are operating correctly.
Both spacecraft are located on the other side of the sun from earth.
NASA says they have added to the understanding of how the sun works. The ships have studied the sun’s gasses, wind, particles and its atmosphere.
Words in This Story
spacecraft – n. a vehicle that is used for travel in outer space
overheating – v. becoming too hot
antenna – n. a device such as a wire or a metal rod for sending or receiving radio or television signals
sensors –n. a device that detects or senses heat, light, sound or motion and then reacts to it in a particular way
- John Heilbron, The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories, 3-23. 约翰．海耳布隆，《教会里的太阳：教堂即太阳观测台》，第3-23页。 来自互联网
- Meteorologists use satellites, land observatories and historical data to provide information about the weather. 气象学家使用卫星、上天文台和历史资料来提供有关天气的信息。 来自互联网
- The workman fixed the antenna to the roof of the house.工人把天线固定在房顶上。
- In our village, there is an antenna on every roof for receiving TV signals.在我们村里，每家房顶上都有天线接收电视信号。