国家地理-2008-04-06 Mission to Mars 火星任务：巨大的心理考验

Cramped quarters, no privacy, and the stress of working together every day. Psychology, more than aerospace engineering, may be the key to sending human crews to Mars. This is Mars on Earth, a station that was built to help us learn how to live on t

Horizon - Life On Mars 火星生命 - 6

For Mars to have rivers, it must once have had streams, rain, clouds and an atmosphere, a planet just like the Earth today-if these were rivers. They had to be sure. The answers would come in 1998 wit

Humans to Mars Official NASA Goal, But What About Radiation?

Human exploration of Mars is now an official goal of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill to increase NASAs budget. The law sets spending at $19.5 billion for the 12-month per

Mars Rover to Begin Taking Soil Samples This Week

Mars Rover to Begin Taking Soil Samples This Week Jessica Berman NASA engineers say the Mars rover will begin taking its first soil samples as soon as it departs the landing platform . Engineers say t

2007年VOA标准英语-Phoenix Probe Ready for Mars Mission

By Paul Sisco Washington 13 July 2007 NASA scientists have unveiled details of the space agency's plans to pierce the icy surface of Mars, near its north pole. The mission is designed to find evidence of water or life on the red planet. VOA's Paul S

VOA慢速英语2015 NASA Working Toward Mission to Mars

NASA Working Toward Mission to Mars The head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, said that the space agency is on track to land people on Mars in the 2030s. Charles Bolden is the administrator for NASA. He said that five ye

2016年CRI China's 1st Mars mission aims at three goals

China's first Mars voyager mission is expected to be launched around 2020 and reach the Red Planet a year or so later. The computer generated images unveiled by the Chinese State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense

双语有声阅读:Nasa doubles Mars traffic 美将发射两枚

Nasa doubles Mars traffic 美将发射两枚探测器登陆火星 An artist's impression of what the new rovers will look like 想象中的新的漫游者的样子 The American space agency, Nasa, has announced that it is planning to send two unmanne

U.S. rover landing on Mars to be live broadcast

WASHINGTON, July 31 (Xinhua) -- U.S. space agency NASA on Tuesday confirmed its most advanced planetary rover, Curiosity will land on the Martian surface at 1:31 a.m. EDT (0531 GMT) on Aug. 6 and the landing process will be broadcast live from Times

Mars Rover Digs Trench to Search for Evidence of Water

Mars Rover Digs Trench to Search for Evidence of Water David McAlary One of the U.S. Mars rovers has spun a wheel to dig a shallow trench in the sand in the continuing search for evidence that water o

Mars rover Spirit ends mission

LOS ANGELES, May 25 (Xinhua) -- NASA project managers bade farewell to the Mars rover Spirit on Wednesday after sending a final set of commands to the stranded vehicle. This marks the completion of one of the most successful missions of interplanetar

Mars mission enters final countdown

BEIJING,Nov. 9 (Xinhuanet) Yinghuo-1, China's first interplanetary spacecraft, is set to hitch a ride with Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars mission in the early hours on Wednesday, after a two-year delay. A Zenit-2SB rocket will carry Yinghuo-1 and Phobos-

voa标准英语2008-NASA Delays 2009 Mars Mission Due to Technical P

NASA says its next mission to check for life on Mars will have to wait two more years. In the meantime, NASA plans to continue testing its next-generation Mars rover, and it hopes to continue exploring the red planet with the help of the European Sp

2007年VOA标准英语-Three Years Later Mars Rovers Keep Going

By David McAlary Washington 04 January 2007 Two U.S. robotic rovers are entering their fourth year exploring opposite sides of Mars, an unexpected length of time for a mission planned for only three months. Yet, now after three years, the mechanical

VOA标准英语2010年-Six Astronauts Train for Eventual Mars

Newlywed Alexei Sytev and his fellow crewmembers will spend a year and a half living aboard a virtual spacecraft to simulate an actual space mission to Mars Six astronauts are about to experience what it's like to travel to Mars and back, only withou

NASA: Confident, Anxious Ahead of Mars Rover Landing

The Curiosity rover is the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission. The U.S. space agency is preparing for the rover to land on the Red Planet on Monday [August 6 at 5:31 UTC]. Curiosity has traveled some 566 million kilome

NASA's Mars rover arrives in Florida

WASHINGTON, June 23 (Xinhua) -- NASA's next Mars rover has completed the journey from its California birthplace to Florida in preparation for launch this fall, the U.S. space agency said Thursday in a statement. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rove

Russia launches joint Mars probe

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe and China's Yinghuo-1 satellite were launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Zenit-2SB rocket at 00:16 am Moscow time Wednesday (2016 GMT Tuesday). The main aim of

NASA close to deciding Mars rover landing site

BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhuanet) -- NASA is close to deciding on a landing site for its Mars rover Curiosity mission by narrowing the choices to four, media reports said Monday. Scientists in the close-knit Mars research community get one last chance to m

NASA’s Rover Ends Mission after 15 Years

The American space agency NASA had expected its rover called Opportunity to operate on Mars for just 90 days. But the vehicle kept exploring for 15 years after landing on the red planet. Opportunity landed on Mars in 2004. Scientists finally lost con