VOA慢速英语20060905b

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Criticism Weighs Heavy on New Solar System With Pluto as a 'Dwarf Planet'By Mario Ritter and produced by Brianna Blake Broadcast: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 VOICE ONE: This is S

2007年VOA慢速英语special200708150045

VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we tell about a project to identify images of one million galaxies that have been captured by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We also tell

VOA慢速英语2015 美国黎明号航天器,接近矮行星

NASA Spacecraft, Dawn, Close to Reaching a 'Dwarf Planet' 美国黎明号航天器,接近矮行星 An American spacecraft is moving closer to a dwarf planet called Ceres. The American space agencys Dawn spacecraft is set to reach the planet-like obje

Possible Earth-Like Planet Next Door?

Possible Earth-Like Planet Next Door? Scientists say they discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting the star closest to our planet other than the Sun. It is the closest planet ever found outside our solar system that could support life as we know it.

SSS 2011-04-22

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Most plants capture sunlight. And the results are usually green. Because in photosynthesis, plant chlorophyll uses wavelengths of blue and our sun's ab

SSS 2011-08-25

This is Scientific Americans 60-SecondScience. Im John Matson, got a minute? Say you need a diamond. You could go downto the jeweler, or you could put some carbon deep underground and let it sitfor a couple billion years. Or you could hop in a starsh

2015-01-14 科学新发现：重新发现冥王星-25

With such a short window to capture data, the team must test and retest the instruments throughout new horizons' nine-year journey.Every year for about two months we are going to wait the spacecraft up and do some testing, some observations of celest

VOA慢速英语20060826a

IN THE NEWS - Pluto and Dark Matter Both Star in a Busy Week for AstronomersBy Brianna Blake Broadcast: Saturday, August 26, 2006 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Pluto compared to other so

VOA慢速英语2017 新发现的太阳系与我们的太阳系相匹配

Newly Discovered Solar System Matches Our Own The American space agency NASA and the technology company Google have identified an eighth planet in a faraway solar system. 美国宇航局和谷歌科技公司已经发现了一个遥远的类太阳系中

VOA慢速英语--美国航天局扩大搜寻能居住的遥远行星

US Space Agency Expands Search for Distant Planets Able to Support Life The search for worlds orbiting distant stars will intensify in the coming weeks when the American space agency NASA launches a spacecraft. Scientists hope the spacecraft will enl

发现:适宜生命存活的一类地行星

An Earth-size planet has been spotted orbiting a nearby star at a distance that would makes it not too hot and not too cold - comfortable enough for life to exist, researchers announced September 29. If confirmed, the exoplanet, named Gliese 581g, wo

US Spacecraft Flies by Pluto After Nine-Year Trip

AS IT IS 2015-07-15 US Spacecraft Flies by Pluto After Nine-Year Trip It has taken more than nine years for an American spacecraft to reach the far edge of our solar system. The spacecraft, named New Horizons, sailed past the dwarf planet Pluto on Tu

New Horizons Space Probe Gets Mission Extension

New Horizons Space Probe Gets Mission Extension The U.S. space agency has announced it is extending the mission of the New Horizons spacecraft. New Horizons is a spacecraft without a human crew. It was the first spacecraft to visit the dwarf planet P

2006年VOA标准英语-Pluto Demoted, No Longer a Planet

By Patricia Nunan in Kantale, Sri Lanka 24 August 2006 As many as 170,000 people in northern and eastern Sri Lanka have been displaced in recent weeks by fighting between the Tamil Tiger rebels and government forces. VOA's Patricia Nunan recently me

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-08-24

August 24th, 79 B.C. Catastrophe strikes as the long-dormant Mount Vesuvius erupts east of Naples in what's now Italy. Volcanic ash buries the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, killing an estimated 20,000 people. 1992Hurricane Andrew smashes i

PBS高端访谈:揭秘矮行星--谷神星的秘密

JUDY WOODRUFF: Let's look at a space mission that's generating lots of interest and excitement. It's the mission to orbit the dwarf planet Ceres by the NASA spacecraft named Dawn. It arrived in March, and as the spacecraft has gotten closer in recent

2006年VOA标准英语-New Planet Discovered Around Distant Star

By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 15 September 2006 watch New Planet report Scientists in Washington D.C. have announced the discovery of a new planet. It is the largest planet ever seen from Earth. New planet, HAT-P-1 It is just weeks since Pluto was re

美科学家称发现太阳系第九行星

Researchers are now pretty certain there's a ninth planet in the solar system. 研究人员如今相当确定，太阳系中存在着第九颗行星。 Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two CalTech scientists, say the new planet is about 10 times th

Step by Step 3000 第2册 Unit11:Space(1)

Step by Step 3000. Book Two. Unit 11. News 3. Space. Part 1. Warming up. A. Keywords. the Earth, planet, the Sun, difference. Vocabulary. circuit, luminous, contemptuous, celestial, glowworm, cosmically, thermonuclear, guise, Eurasian, landmass. You'

澳大利亚科学家发现超级地球 距地球仅14光年

Australian astronomers have discovered the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system so far a super-Earth located just 14 light years away. 澳大利亚的天文学家发现了太阳系外的一个潜在的宜居星球。这颗