A New Crater on the Moon
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
A scientist looks at pictures from NASA.
- A2
A scientist looked at pictures from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
- B1
A scientist looked at pictures from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
- B2
A scientist reviewing images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered the largest newly formed crater ever observed in our solar system.
- C1
For over 17 years, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has circled the Moon.
- C2
For more than 17 years, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has faithfully circled the Moon, meticulously mapping its barren surface and documenting its evolving topography.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- crater
- a large round hole in the ground made by something hitting it or by an explosion
- officially
- in a formal and public way
- comet
- an object in space that looks like a bright star with a tail and moves around the sun
- asteroid
- a large rock in space that goes around the sun
- chunk
- a thick, solid piece of something
- temperature
- how hot or cold something is
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA. Read the original for the full report.