Today we are of course going to be talking about Tianwen 1.

China landed its first pair of robots on the surface of Mars on Friday, becoming the second country to do so successfully after overcoming a daring, seven-minute landing sequence. The country’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft ejected the rover-lander bundle for a Martian touchdown at around 7PM ET, kicking off a mission to study the Red Planet’s climate and geology.

生詞短語:

land [lænd]

登陸；使…登陸

daring [ˈderɪŋ]

大膽的；冒險的

sequence [ˈsiːkwəns]

系列動作

spacecraft [ˈspeɪskræft]

航天器；宇宙飛船

eject [iˈdʒekt]

彈射

rover [ˈroʊvər]

巡視器

lander [ˈlændər]

著陸器

rover-lander bundle [ˈroʊvər ˈlændər ˈbʌndl]

著陸巡視器

Mars [mɑːrz]

火星

Martian [ˈmɑːrʃn]

火星的

touchdown [ˈtʌtʃdaʊn]

<名詞> 著陸

kick off [ˈkɪk ɔːf]

開啟

geology [dʒiˈɑːlədʒi]

地質(zhì)