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EXPLORATIONS - 1961: Telling Mission Control 'Light This Candle,' Alan Shepard Is Launched Into SpaceBy Marilyn Christiano and Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 VOICE ONE: This is St

Mars and Astronomy

By Paul Thompson Broadcast: September 17, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And this is Richard Rael with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. The planet Mars came

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October 31st 2011, that's the date the U.N. says the 7 billionth person will be born on Earth,7 billion.That's a crowded planet, says Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and author of the Price of Civilizatio

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On November 8th, Russia launched a probe toward the tiny Martian moon Phobos. The launch was picture-perfect, and the spacecraft, called PhobosGrunt, soared into the night sky over Kazakhstan. The good news stops there. For instead of boosting itself

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm John Matson. Got a minute? On November 8th, Russia launched a probe toward the tiny Martian moon Phobos. The launch was picture-perfect, and the spacecraft, called PhobosGrunt, soared into the nigh

VOA慢速英语2012 EXPLORATIONS - Project Mercury: Alan Shepard Becomes the First American in Space

EXPLORATIONS - Project Mercury: Alan Shepard Becomes the First American in Space STEVE EMBER: This is Steve Ember. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we finish the story of the firs

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

英语听力：探索发现 2014-06-08 BBC 地平线：陨石的真相-12

But there is a downside to Jupiter. It can also deflect asteroids into orbits that cross the Earths path. The Chelyabinsk meteor appears to be one of these typical Earth-crossing events. The likelihood is that it was thrown out of its regular orbit b

英语听力：探索发现 2014-05-18 BBC 地平线：陨石的真相-4

Amazing images. But what can you get out of these asan expert? What it shows us, first of all, is a great record ofthe entry of the object into the Earths atmosphere. So you see it right fromthe moment it really penetrated. And there it is. That is t

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EXPLORATIONS - 'The Greatest Experience': Ed White Goes for the First American Walk in SpaceBy Marilyn Christiano Broadcast: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by

MESSENGER Probe Sends First Mercury Images

The U.S. space agency(代理中介) has released the first ever image taken of the surface of Mercury from a spacecraft orbiting the planet. The black and white image, posted on the NASA website Tuesday, shows a surface pocked with craters of varying

VOA标准英语2008年-MESSENGER Provides New Data On Planet Mercury

Data from the first flyby of the planet Mercury in January of 2008 by the spacecraft MESSENGER are reported in eleven papers this week in the journal Science. The findings reveal new details about the solar system's smallest planet 77 million kilome

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-4

Many aspects, like its geological past, are a mystery. But some things we do know, this lonely planet has a strange sense of keeping time. Once you arrive, you have to reset your watch for a time zone like no other. It has such an unusual orbit and r

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-5

Mercury's core makes up about 60% of the planet by mass. It's about twice as big as earth. Why would it have such a huge core for such a small planet? Some people think there was a huge impact. Kind of stripped off a lot of the planet and now what we

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-9

And its here in a freezer that Messenger will encounter another puzzle: can ice exist on a planet so close to the sun? It's only when the first radar observations to the surface of Mercury were obtained back in the 90s that it was discovered that Mer

NASA Messenger Probe Set for Historic Orbit Around Mercury

The U.S. space agency NASAs Messenger probe（正直的，廉洁的 ） is scheduled to reach Mercury later this week, and become the first spacecraft to orbit the planet closest to the sun. During Messengers year-long orbital mission, scientists exp

MESSENGER Spacecraft Will Be First to Orbit Planet Mercury

The U.S. space probe MESSENGER is poised to enter orbit around Mercury（水银） early Friday, Universal time, capping a nearly seven-year journey to the solar systems innermost planet. Scientists with the U.S. space agency, NASA, hope the orbiting

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-1

Everyone likes a vacation in a warm climate, but how about a trip to two planets that are as hot as hell? If you are walking on the surface of Mercury, you need one heck of a spacesuit. Mysterious Mercury appears lifeless and desolate, but hidden dee

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-7

Like Mercury, the earth takes a beating from the sun's violent temper. Flares, sun storms and other solar hissy fits can cause electronic mayhem for the satellites that roam above our heads. Fortunately, the earth is protected from this radiation by

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Chicxulub is buried under two to three kilometers of limestone and mostly offshore, 奇克休留布大坑在两三公里的灰岩深处，而且大部分在近海。 which makes it difficult to study, Anderson went on, while Manson is really quite ac