走遍全世界03:地球之外有生命吗？

Since early times, people have been fascinated with the idea of life existing somewhere else besides earth. Until recently, scientists believed that life on other planets was just a hopeful dream. But now they are beginning to locate places where lif

太阳科普 第3期

The winter solstice events at Maeshowe demonstrate 梅萧韦古墓葬的冬至事件 an intimate and precise knowledge of 展现了古人 the sun's movements through the sky. 对太阳运行轨迹的精确了解 It was the first step on ourjourney to

太阳科普 第13期

When the sunspots disappeared something on the sun changed 太阳黑子消失时，太阳表面的变化导致 that cooled the Earth down. 地球温度降低 But it wasn't that the solar output changed. 改变的并不是太阳的输出量 No matter

日本在遥远的小行星上部署了跳跃机器人

Japan Deploys Jumping Robots on Distant Asteroid Two small Japanese robots landed on a distant asteroid last weekend. The robots took small jumps, making it the first time that any device from our planet has moved on the surface of an asteroid. The t

VOA慢速英语2018 帕克太阳探测器成为最接近太阳的航天器

Parker Solar Probe Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Sun The American space agency is reporting that its Parker Solar Probe now holds the record for the closest approach to the Sun by a human-made object. 美国航天局报告称，其帕克号太阳探测

VOA慢速英语2014 Hoverboards Ignore Gravity

Hoverboards Ignore Gravity Can you imagine riding around the streets of your hometown on a skateboard without wheels? In the late 1980s, film director Robert Zemeckis showed a skateboard floating above the ground in his movie Back To The Future Part

美国有线新闻 CNN 木星直径约是地球直径的11倍

In terms of its diameter, which of these planets is about 11 times the size of Earth? 就其直径而言，以下哪个行星的直径大约是地球直径的11倍? Venus, Saturn, Jupiter or none of these? 金星，土星，木星还是都不是? The

Drying Food

Broadcast: Jan 21, 2003 By Gary Garriott Drying food is a simple, low-cost way to keep food safe for eating. Drying removes water that small organisms use to break down food into other substances. Som

万花筒 2013-07-04&07-08 探索太阳：NASA发射一颗新型太阳观测卫星

-Im Chris Kaufman and I here with Justin Kasper, who works at Smithsonian, hes an astrophysicist at the Smithsonian. And he's won a project thats gonna launch a probe at the sun, specifically the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons investigation,

VOA慢速英语2014 罗塞塔航天器捕捉到一颗彗星

AS IT IS 2014-08-07 Rosetta Spacecraft Catches a Comet 罗塞塔航天器捕捉到一颗彗星 After a 10-year trip, a European spacecraft has, for the first time, entered an orbit around a comet. The European Space Agencys Rosetta spacecraft began a

“朱诺”飞船靠近木星

Spacecraft Moving in for Jupiter Close-up 朱诺飞船靠近木星 Jupiter, our solar systems largest planet, is about to show its secrets. On July 4, a NASA spacecraft will enter Jupiters orbit and start sending data back to Earth. It will be the fi

TED演讲:可能存在生命的三颗卫星和一颗行星(4)

A few months ago the fairy tale came true. 几个月前，童话故事成真了！ We announced to the world that we know what these streaks are. It's liquid water. 我们向世界宣布，我们已经知道这些条纹是什么了。是液态水。

英语听力：自然百科 地球力场 Earth's Force Field—5

If we could flip a switch and just turn off the Earth's magnetic field, it will take about 15,000 years to disappear, based on the rate of decay of the field that we've seen over the last 150 years. It's currently decaying at a rate that would see an

英语听力：自然百科 行星旅行指南：木星 Jupiter—11

If gravity measurement showed no solid core, then Jupiter formed early like the Sun, with a core then its birth came later when solid materials were created. By measuring water content, Juno should also reveal how hot the solar system was, when Jupit

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

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Solar Food Dryers

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Solar Food Dryers By Gary Garriott Broadcast: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Drying food is a simple, low-cost way to keep

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

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-3

Craters here stretch as far as the eye can see. Although no human has ever set foot on Mercury, we have a pretty good idea of what you would see. If you are walking around on the surface of Mercury, it will look outwardly a lot like the moon. When yo

美国国家公共电台 NPR Way Beyond Pluto, An Icy World Is Ready For Its Close-Up

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: To reach the latest news about our solar system, you have to travel out to Pluto, really far from the sun. And then you travel about a billion miles more. That's what a spacecraft has done. And now it's about to get a look at a m

Microsoft launches "Surface" Tablets

LOS ANGELES, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft Corp. unveiled Monday a family of tablets dubbed Surface, built on Windows 8, at an event in Los Angeles. Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer introduced the company's Surface family of tablets. The devic