Curiosity Reaches Five Thousand Days
Read the whole story in the app
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 has a rover.
- A2
NASA has a rover.
- B1
NASA has a rover called Curiosity.
- B2
Fourteen years after arriving, NASA’s Curiosity rover has just reached a major milestone.
- C1
Fourteen years after arriving on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover has just surpassed an extraordinary milestone.
- C2
Fourteen years after arriving on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover has just surpassed an extraordinary milestone, logging five thousand Martian days, or sols, traversing the planet’s unforgiving terrain.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- rover
- A vehicle for exploring the surface of a planet or moon.
- investigate
- To look into closely or study in detail to find out the truth.
- ripple
- A small wave or series of waves on the surface of water or sand.
- program
- To give a machine or computer a set of instructions to perform a task.
- undisturbed
- Not touched, changed, or moved by anyone or anything.
- schedule
- To plan for an event or task to happen at a certain time.
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA. Read the original for the full report.