Mercury 水星 Which planet is the closest to the sun in the solar system? 太阳系中哪颗行星离太阳最近? It is Mercury. It is also the smallest planet in the solar system. 水星。它也是太阳系中最小的行星。 How small is Mer

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A new book explains how the communication and renewable energy revolutions can determine the future survival of earth Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC 16 February 2010 We are at a turning point in human history, says futurist Jeremy Rifkin, and how we

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> 33 接近地球的不名星体 DATE=6-6-01 TITLE=EXPLORATIONS#1955 - Near Earth Objects BYLINE=Paul Thompson VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Speci

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American Stories - A Princess of Mars, Part Four BOB DOUGHTY: Now, the Special English program, American Stories. (MUSIC) BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to the fourth and last part of our program, A Princess of Mars. The story is from a series of books by Edga

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Can Forests Help Feed the World? 森林能帮着为世界提供粮食吗? Experts predict nine billion people will live on our planet by 2050. They say by that time demand for food will be two times what it is now. Officials are worried about that pr

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A Beautiful Planet in IMAX 3D IMAX 3D下的美丽星球 Astronauts onboard the International Space Station have recorded a new IMAX 3D film, A Beautiful Planet. Just as the name says, it shows the great beauty of the planet we all live on Earth. One

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AS IT IS 2016-05-12 NASA Discovers Nearly 1,300 New Planets 美国宇航局发现了将近1300颗新行星 NASA the U.S. space agency said it found nearly 1,300 planets outside our solar system. Nine of the planets are orbiting stars at the distance

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Earths Arctic Ice Disappears, Scientists Study Nearest Exoplanet Each year, more ice disappears from the Arctic Ocean. A new study blames human activity for the loss. The damage is caused, the study says, by greenhouse gases coming from vehicles, air

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AS IT IS 2014-10-15 Spacecraft Sends 'Tantalizing' Information from Mars 飞船从火星发回诱人的信息 Scientists working on the year-long American mission to explore Mars hope that it will help solve the mystery of how the Red Planet lost mos

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VOA's weekly science and technology magazine Art Chimes 18 December 2009 MUSIC: Our World theme This week on Our World: President Obama at the Copenhagen climate conference ... an update on the H1N1 'swine' flu ... and Science magazine's breakthrough

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Todd:Ebony, we were looking at the internet and we saw that the U.S. is going to try to put people on the moon, again, in a few years. What do you think about that? Ebony, 我们上网看到美国在几年之后又要将人送上月球。关于这个你

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8) 环保 afforestation n. 绿化造林 afforestation drive n.绿化运动 agricultural ecology 农业生态学 artificial rain n.人工降雨 biosphere n. 生物圈 car exhaust n.汽车尾气 carbon dioxide (CO2) n. 二氧化碳 Carbon monoxide (CO)

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By Paul Thompson Broadcast: July 20, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: This is Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, Explorations. Today we tell about Americ

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Since Astropup last went into space, he has started to think big thoughts about the Universe. Now he is torn between the love of his owner, Jenny, and his thirst for space exploration. He returns to the launchpad for another mission with his companio

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How did all the planets get there? How is it only our planet has life? Will we ever travel to other planets? These are questions I often think about. I think our planet is the best. It looks so beautiful from space with its mixture of blue and green.

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The Solar System is an amazing thing. I cant imagine just how big it is. I dont think anyone can. It all centres around our Sun. Our solar system has eight planets in it. When I was a kid I learnt there were nine planets, but some time ago, scientist

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I think snakes are very interesting. They have a very strange effect on people. Some people are fascinated by them, but others are terrified of them. I love looking at them. They really are fantastic creatures. Its almost as if they come from another

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Science and Technolgy 科技 Citizen astronomy 全民天文学 A new world in your bedroom 卧室里的新天地 Amateur astronomers join the ranks of the planet hunters 业余天文学家加入猎星人行列 IN AN age of professionals, the ability

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So the solar system is really quite enormous. By the time we reach Pluto, we have come so far that the Sunour dear, warm, skin-tanning, life-giving Sunhas shrunk to the size of a pinhead. It is little more than a bright star. 所以,太阳系确实是

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What an interesting and exciting thought. We may be only one of millions of advanced civilizations. Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average distance between any two of these civilizations is reckoned to be at least two hundred light-years, w

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