根据画线词后的 after the successful landing of the Mars rover Curiosity 可知 B项正确。 2.D 细节理解题。 从第三段第一、二句 The mobile robot, or rover, landed in a crater near Mars's equator. Minutes later, it sent back to Earth a black-and-white picture of its own wheel on Mars...
Curiosity, NASA’s Mars rover (探测器), recently took the world by surprise. It took a picture of a small “flower” while it was exploring the surface of Mars. Clearly, it’s not an actual flower. But it could be a rock that had been created a long time ago. Back then, the Red...
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” after a 19th-century English paleontologist. Curiosity snagged three samples of drilled rock at this site on its way out of the Glen Torridon region, which scientists believe preserves an ancient ...
‘NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of Earth setting while Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, is rising. It’s the first time an image of the two celestial bodies have been captured together from the surface ...
Mars Curiosity Rover self-portrait. It is the fourth time Curiosity has recorded noctilucent clouds, always in the early fall of the Martian year and in the southern hemisphere. Scientists are stumped as to why the twilight clouds haven’t been spotted in other locations. The Pers...
Over the weekend,NASA's newest Mars rover,the Curiosity,which landed early on Aug.6 after an eight-month flight,started sending back a 360-degree high-resolution(高分辨)panorama (全景画;全景摄影)of its surroundings. At a news conference on Wednesday,John P.Grotzinger,a professor of geology ...
The Mars Rover Curiosity NASA’s space shuttle orbiter Challenger was an engineering failure that shocked the US when it blew up 73 seconds into its flight after its launch from Florida in 1986, killing all seven of its crew. The cause of the failure was that the shuttle’s O-ring seal ...
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover landed on Mars on August 6, 2012. In the 7 years between landing and August 6, 2019 (sol 2488), Curiosity has driven 21,318.5 m over a variety of terrain types and slopes, employing multiple drive modes with varying amounts...
NASA's Curiosity rover has captured "sun rays" on Mars for the first time, the agencysays. The footage was taken on Feb. 6, NASA said, and showed the phenomenon as the sun set on the planet. This is the first time, NASA said, that the sun rays, also known as crepuscular rays, ...
While Curiosity, the most recent rover that's part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, cost a whopping $2.47 billion to build, NASA still didn't have to account for pesky things like allowing someone to breathe oxygen [source: Space.com]. Or return from Mars, for that matter. ...