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At the top of the world, under the ice, lies a large number of natural resources. Gas, coal, uranium and other minerals, even diamonds, sit under the ice inside the Arctic Circle. As climate change pushes the cold and ice farther north each year, dis

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2006年VOA标准英语-European "Venus Express" Begins Orbiting E

By David McAlary Washington 11 April 2006 A European spacecraft has arrived at Venus to study Earth's hot, hazy sister planet. It is only the latest of many space probes trying to understand why our c

VOA慢速英语 2007 1205b

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VOA标准英语2013--Skylab-Era Astronauts Reflect on Life Off Earth

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Imagine the disc of our galaxy, if you just took a disc of stars and put it there, gravity would tend to make this disc collapse/ into itself and it would immediately just fall together. That is not what we see with the galaxy. Whats actually going o

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TED演讲:在外太空自由落体

Have you ever been floating in a swimming pool, all comfy and warm, 你是否曾经浮在游泳池里，感觉非常惬意，暖洋洋得， thinking, Man, it'd be cool to be an astronaut! 想着，天啦，当一名宇航员太爽了！ You could fl

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Meanwhile, a 45-meter wide asteroid has hurtled safely past earth after it came within 27-thousand kilometers, making it the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. The asteroid, named 2012 DA14 came closer to earth than many communication and we