时间:2019-01-26 作者:英语课 分类:自然探索


英语课

39 观测火星的最佳时机


DATE=6-20-01
TITLE=SCIENCE REPORT - Observing Mars 1
BYLINE=Mario Ritter 


(Start at 59" )This is the Bill White with VOA Special English Science Report.
Scientists say this is a good time to observe the planet 2 (1) Mars. Mars changes in brightness 3 more than any other planet.  In June and July, Mars will shine brighter than (2) Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. Mars is also interesting to watch from week to week because it moves among the stars more quickly than other planets 4. Mars is known as "the red planet."  In fact, it is bright orange.
This month, you can observe Mars best around the middle of the night.  If you face directly south, Mars will be the brightest star before you.  If you live in the northern half of the world, Mars will be low in the southern sky, near the star group called Scorpius. But Mars will be almost overhead 5 if you live in the southern half of the world. You can easily recognize Mars because of its brightness and orange color.
This month, Mars will be especially bright for two reasons. About every two years, Mars reaches a point (3) opposite the sun in our sky.  A planet is said to be at "(4) opposition 6" when this happens. Mars reached opposition on June thirteenth.
Mars also has an unusual (5) orbit 7. The distance from Earth to the sun changes very little because Earth's orbit is almost a perfect (6) circle. But Mars' orbit is shaped more like an egg than a circle. So its distance from the sun changes much more during the (7) Martian year.
On June twenty-first, "the red planet" will be about sixty-seven million kilometers from Earth. This is the closest Mars has been since Nineteen-Eighty-Eight. 
You can see changes in Mars' distance from Earth at opposition most clearly by using a (8) telescope.  This year, even a small telescope will show that Mars is round like a very small full moon.  A larger telescope will show markings that are caused by different qualities of the Martian soil. Some areas reflect more sunlight than others do. On Earth, we see these differences as spots or markings of different colors. 
A telescope also will show that the north and south poles of Mars are covered with ice just like the Earth's poles. Even huge dust storms have been seen in the Martian atmosphere.
Mars has (9) captured 8 the human imagination for thousands of years. Its changes in brightness and its movement through the sky make Mars a special sight. Next week we will tell more about Mars, the (10) mysterious "red planet."
This VOA Special English Science Report was written by Mario Ritter. This is Bill White.



(1)  Mars [mB:z] n.火星
(2)  Sirius [`siri[s] n.天狼星
(3) opposite [ `RpEzit] adj.相对的, 对面的
(4) opposition [CpE`ziFEn] n. [天]冲
(5) orbit [ `R:bit] n.轨道
(6) circle [`s[:kl] n.圆周, 圆形物
(7) Martian [`mB:FiEn] adj.火星的
(8) telescope [`teliskEUp] n.望远镜
(9) capture [`kAptFE] vt.俘获, 捕获, 夺取
(10) mysterious [mis`tiEriEs] adj.神秘的



n.火星,战争
  • As of now we don't know much about Mars.目前我们对火星还知之甚少。
  • He contended that there must be life on Mars.他坚信火星上面一定有生物。
n.行星
  • Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun. 海王星是离太阳最远的行星。
  • Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet. 然而, 垃圾只是我们这个星球的污染问题的一个方面。
n.明亮,亮度,聪颖,光泽度,灯火通明
  • The brightness of the paint has worn off a little.油漆的光泽有些磨损了。
  • Her eyes squinted against the brightness.亮光刺得她眯起眼睛。
行星( planet的名词复数 ); 地球(尤指环境)
  • Does life exist on other planets? 其他行星上有生命吗?
  • the planets of our solar system 太阳系的行星
adj.在头顶上的,悬空的;n.间接开支
  • A number of birds are circling overhead.很多鸟在头顶上空盘旋。
  • Many stars overhead are invisible to the naked eye.天上的许多星星是肉眼看不到的。
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
n.轨道;vt.使沿轨道运行;使进入轨道运行;vi.沿轨道运行,环行
  • The space rocket was launched and went into orbit.宇宙火箭发射后进入轨道。
  • We can draw the earth's orbit round the sun.我们可以画出地球绕太阳运行的轨迹。
俘获( capture的过去式和过去分词 ); 夺取; 夺得; 引起(注意、想像、兴趣)
  • Allied troops captured over 300 enemy soldiers. 盟军俘虏了300多名敌方士兵。
  • Most of the rebels were captured and disarmed. 大部分叛乱分子被俘获并解除了武装。
学英语单词
a man of no fixed abode
ability of anti-nuclear-radiation
adell
admissible character
alabama cotton
alimenting
Ancyrognathus
aqueductus
assubjugating
back pain
benchmarkable
beneathness
bookkeeping typewriter
buying clerk
characeeristic component
chipware
clavicular line
coaxial speaker
cochealed
congenital bilateral dislocation of knee joints
cordles
deianira
depa
developing bacteroidal tissue
direct labour basis
drum operation system
economic extinction
effective discharge
eitner
electrooptic modulation
enter into a partnership with
enzyme action
ethyl sulfate
Excelgrow
facemailed
falchion
falls asleep
fisher-price
floating storage
fluoroorotic
forensic linguistics
general stockholders' meeting
Ghom
globular stage
greenidea brideliae
hardenablity
have not a dry thread on one
high quality
Hollywood science
Hyoscyamus pusillus
index number of retail prices
interim reform package
Iosopan
ITS-90
jugerum
kanzo
knotter disc
Kora Nehir
Lindside
lineariss
lunar communication
Morozovskiy
near-diffraction-limited mirror
NSF check
ohio-based
ophiernus
ora coleopterorum
passholders
peripatecians
peroryctid
personal life
Phlebotomus stantoni
pile fabric
Plush-Capped
political entities
postvaccine
precision machine tool
provided on four sides
put to shame
reaction control agent
refusals
rivergod
sammarai
sanitary
semi-chemical pulping process
shelf-stable
skew arch
slip-tube shaft
soil skeleton
Soton
subcutaneous injury
subiodide
sudachi
tanker ship
tertiary stem villus
took the stage
top hat frames
unilateral hemianopsia
unviewable
v-jointeds
Wallhausen
zea mays indentatas