趣味青春英语 第87期:Move heaven and earth

Idiom: Move heaven and earth 经历千辛万苦做成某事 Hit the books: 1. space station 空间站 2. soil 土壤 3. astronaut 宇航员 4. orbit 轨道，围绕进行旋转 5. unreliable 不可靠的 6. laptop 手提电脑，笔记本电脑 7. ch

VOA标准英语2011--Space Crew to Enjoy Thanksgiving Feast in Orbit

Space Crew to Enjoy Thanksgiving Feast in Orbit The three crew members on the International Space Station plan to have their own Thanksgiving feast on Thursday as they orbit 352 kilometers above the earth. The lone American on board plans to share so

SSS 2009-01-05

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? We residents of the Milky Way should have a little extra skip in our step today. Turns out our home galaxy is much bigger and moving a lot faster than we previously th

SSS 2011-11-18

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

SSS 2011-11-17

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

科学家称发现太阳系新行星

Is There a Ninth Planet in Our Solar System? 科学家称发现太阳系新行星 Scientists said they have found evidence of a giant planet far out in our solar system. In a statement, the California Institute of Technology Caltech -- said this plan

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Slow Trip To A Hot Planet: Spacecraft Launches For Mission To Mercury

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Later tonight at Europe's spaceport in French Guiana, a probe is scheduled to lift off. Its goal, as NPR's Joe Palca reports, is to explore the mysteries of Mercury. JOE PALCA, BYLINE: Mercury is a funny little planet. Like the Ear

2017年CRI China's cargo spacecraft refuels space lab in orbit

China's first cargo spacecraft has refueled the Tiangong-2 space lab in orbit for the first time. Tianzhou-1, which was launched April 20th from Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province, successfully completed an automated dockin

2016年CRI Chinese space lab Tiangong-2 kicks off in-orbit tests, waiting for docking with Shenzhou-11

Hours after Tiangong-2 was successfully launched, the space lab conducted its first transfer of orbit at 2:45 am Beijing time on Friday morning. In the meantime, it has also started in-orbit tests, which are a series of examinations on the functions

万物简史 第27期:走进太阳系(5)

As for Pluto itself, nobody is quite sure how big it is, or what it is made of, what kind of atmosphere it has, or even what it really is. A lot of astronomers believe it isn't a planet at all, but merely the largest object so far found in a zone of

Space junks threaten future mission

BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The amount of space junks floating in Earth's orbit has reached a critical level, warned scientists. The future space missions may become too dangerous to fly for a risk of colliding with space junks, said a report rel

Orbit tower unveiled in London's Olympic park

LONDON, May 11 (Xinhua) -- A controversial steel tower was unveiled in the Olympic park of London on Friday, about two and a half months before opening of the Games, which was hoped to become of a new icon of the city and bring more visitors. The tow

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

NASA's twin probes reach lunar orbit

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Twin U.S. spacecraft to study the moon from crust to core put themselves into the lunar orbit on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, the country's space agency said. The second Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory, o

Space junk endangers spaceship, satellites

BEIJING, Sept. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- The amount of space junk orbiting the Earth could cause fatal leaks in spaceships or destroy valuable satellites, according to a report released by the U.S. National Research Council. Computer models have shown that th

学个词Learn a Word 第1501课 debris

今天我们要学的词是debris。 Debris, 意思是残骸。 Pieces of debris from last year's Japanese tsunami, carried by the currents, have begun to show up on the west coast of the United States and Canada, 去年日本海啸留下的残骸在洋

Step by Step 3000 第2册 Unit11:Space(3)

Part 3. Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. Keywords. ailing observatory, orbit, gamma rays. Vocabulary. debris, thruster, gyroscope, bathe, stream from, Compton Gamma Observatory, Goddard Space Flight Center. Now listen to a news report, complete the new

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If you find yourself away from a city, spend an hour looking up on any clear, moonless night. You're bound to see a few brilliant shooting stars. These actually have nothing to do with stars: They're meteors, and if your viewing conditions are good,

Iran to launch research satellite into space: report

TEHRAN, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Iran is going to launch domestically- built Navid satellite by Safir satellite launcher by the end of March 2012, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Sunday. Navid (promise) is a research satellite and is current