There's a new vehicle driving around on Mars. What is it hoping to find? Neil and Chris discuss the latest exploration of the red planet in this week's 6 Minute English.
This week's question:
How long does it take Mars to go around, or orbit, the Sun? Is it:
a) 152 days
b) 687 days
c) 2024 days
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme.
Listen
Driving on Mars
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Vocabulary
- remotely controlled
operated by a device not connected to the machine
- orbit
the circular path a planet makes around another planet
- rover
a car-like vehicle with no driver
- searing
intense
- seismometers
machines to measure movement under the surface of planets
- earthquake
a sudden and violent movement in the ground
- core
centre
- molten
liquid rock or metal
- obsessed
not able to stop thinking about something
- diverse
different and varied
