A New Picture from Mars
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
NASA shares a new picture.
- A2
NASA's Curiosity rover recorded two wide black-and-white pictures.
- B1
NASA's Curiosity rover recorded two black-and-white panoramic images.
- B2
To mark its 5,000th Martian day, NASA's Curiosity rover recorded two sweeping black-and-white panoramic images.
- C1
To commemorate its 5,000th Martian day, NASA’s Curiosity rover recorded two sweeping black-and-white panoramic images of the surrounding landscape.
- C2
To commemorate its 5,000th Martian day, NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured a pair of sweeping, black-and-white panoramic images of the desolate landscape.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- rover
- a vehicle for exploring the surface of an extraterrestrial body
- panoramic
- with a wide view surrounding the observer
- ridge
- a long narrow hilltop or mountain range
- combine
- to join or bring together
- represent
- to be a sign or symbol of something
- rim
- the upper or outer edge of an object, typically something circular
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA. Read the original for the full report.