VOA慢速英语--日本航天器到达小行星表面进行研究

Japanese Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid to Study Surface A Japanese spacecraft arrived at an asteroid Wednesday after traveling for more than three years. The Hayabusa2 spacecraft is to perform a new experiment. It will create a crater on the asteroi

日本在遥远的小行星上部署了跳跃机器人

Japan Deploys Jumping Robots on Distant Asteroid Two small Japanese robots landed on a distant asteroid last weekend. The robots took small jumps, making it the first time that any device from our planet has moved on the surface of an asteroid. The t

侏罗纪搏击俱乐部 第166期:两颗巨大的小行星相撞

Giant long-necked Sauropods were able to browse at treetop levels, while other plant eating dinosaurs were perfectly adapted to take advantage of the low-growing vegetation. 巨大的长颈蜥脚类恐龙能够吃树顶上的嫩枝，而其它的植食

小王子 第8期:B612小行星

I had thus learned a second fact of great importance: 我还了解到另一件重要的事， this was that the planet the little prince came from was scarcely any larger than a house! 就是他老家所在的那个星球比一座房子大不了多少。

第31230号小行星永久命名为"屠呦呦星"

Tu Youyou, a Chinese pharmacologist and winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is getting an asteroid named after her. 近日，一颗小行星以中国药理学家、2015年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖得主屠呦呦的名字而命

经济学人374:小行星采矿 淘铂去

Mining asteroids 小行星采矿 Going platinum 小行星采矿淘铂去 Mining metals from asteroids seems a bonkers idea. But could it work? 小行星采矿这想法听似疯狂，但行得通吗？ CAN reality trump art? That was the question hove

水或由小行星 "撞"给地球

According to the Daily Telegraph of October 9, water ice and organic molecules that help to form the basis of life have been discovered on a second asteroid, called 65 Cybele, by astronomers。 The finding was reported at a meeting of planetary scien

VOA慢速英语2016 美国航天局为小行星会面做准备

AS IT IS 2016-08-26 US Space Agency Prepares for Asteroid Meet-up 美国航天局为小行星会面做准备 American researchers are making final plans to send a spacecraft into space for a possible meeting with an asteroid. 美国研究人员正在做

VOA慢速英语2016 恐龙数量在小行星撞击地球前就已减少分享到:

Dinosaurs Already Decreasing Before Asteroid Hit 恐龙数量在小行星撞击地球前就已减少分享到: Dinosaursthose big prehistoric creatures may have already been decreasing in population long before an asteroid crashed into the Earth, and

Small asteroid to pass Earth: NASA

LOS ANGELES, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Near-Earth asteroid 2011 MD will whip past Earth on June 27, but will not pose any threat, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Friday. The asteroid will pass only 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) above the E

VOA常速英语2013--科学家们着手应对真实撞击地球小行星

Scientists Debate, Prepare for Killer Asteroid 科学家们着手应对真实撞击地球小行星 NEW YORK Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes. Now, add asteroids to the list of natural disasters that can threaten humanity and all life on our planet. F

夏说英语新闻晨读 第288期:小行星近距离划过

本期内容： A house-sized asteroid will shave past our planet on 12 October, far inside the Moon's orbit but without posing any threat, astronomers have said. The space rock will zoom by harmlessly at a distance of about 44,000km, an eighth of th

经济学人337:小行星采矿 淘铂去

Science and technology 科学技术 Mining asteroids 小行星采矿 Going platinum 小行星采矿淘铂去 Mining metals from asteroids seems a bonkers idea. But could it work? 小行星采矿这想法听似疯狂，但行得通吗？ CAN reality t

经济学人237:寻找外星生物 闪烁吧小行星

The search for alien life 寻找外星生物 Twinkle, twinkle, little planet 闪烁吧，小行星 An undervalued optical trick may help to find life in other solar systems 一个不被人重视的光学方法可能能帮助寻找其他太阳系的生命

经济学人183:小行星探测 黎明号初试锋芒

Science and technology 科学技术 Investigating the asteroids 小行星探测 Dawn's early light 黎明号初试锋芒 A mission to the asteroid belt will visit leftovers from the solar system's formation 小行星带探测任务将造访太阳系形

经济学人297:应对小行星撞击 近地掠过

Science and technology 科学技术 Dealing with asteroid strikes 应对小行星撞击 A close shave 近地掠过 After a hit and a near miss minds are focusing on the risks from space rocks 在一次撞击和一次近距离擦肩而过后，人们开

天籁音乐:If You Were Alien

If You Were Alien The Brunettes，来自新西兰的独立乐队，还是清爽可人的男女声对唱，他们的音乐听起来带着一点点甜蜜、 一点点童趣，女声的纯朴音质感觉更显亲切。 If You Were Alien-The Brunettes If

留美老师带你每日说英文 第887期:小行星引起的大灾难

More imminent is an asteroid large enough to create a global catastrophe which is estimated to occur every 120,000 years. 较迫切的危机是：有个小行星的体积大到能够引起全球性的大灾难，而这种灾难预计每12万年就会发

新GRE填空三空练习题

1. In Democracies and its Critics, Robert Dahl defends both democratic value and pluralist democracies, or polyarchies. Dahl argues convincingly that the idea of democracy rests on political equalitythe equality capacity of all citizens to determine

经济学人471:小行星采矿这想法听似疯狂?

Science and technology. 科技。 Mining asteroids. 小行星采矿。 Going platinum. 小行星采矿淘铂去。 Mining metals from asteroids seems a bonkers idea. But could it work? 小行星采矿这想法听似疯狂，但行得通吗？ CAN rea