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Ancient Mars Rock Found in the Sahara Desert

Scientists funded by NASA, the US space agency, have found that a meteorite named Teghaza 001 is from Mars.

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The same story at six levels

How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.

  1. A1

    Scientists studied Teghaza 001.

  2. A2

    Scientists with money from NASA studied the rock Teghaza 001.

  3. B1

    Scientists funded by NASA, the US space agency, have found that a meteorite named Teghaza 001 is from Mars.

  4. B2

    A pink-toned rock named Teghaza 001 was found in 2022 on a salt plain in Mali in the Sahara Desert.

  5. C1

    When a pink-toned rock was found on a salt plain in Mali in 2022, it joined a small group.

  6. C2

    When a pink-toned rock was found on a salt plain in Mali in 2022, it joined a small group.

Key words

Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.

meteorite
a piece of rock or metal from space that has landed on Earth
plain
a large area of flat land
unusual
different from what is normal or common
varied
made of many different types of things
crust
the hard outer layer of a planet
observation
something that you notice or record by watching carefully

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