MIT Students Win NASA Contest by Turning Lunar Trash into Useful Parts
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
CERBERUZ won NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge.
- A2
CERBERUZ won first place in both the Prototype and Digital Twin categories of the LunaRecycle Challenge.
- B1
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student team CERBERUZ has won first place in both the Prototype and Digital Twin categories of NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge.
- B2
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student team CERBERUZ has won first place in both the Prototype and Digital Twin categories of NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge.
- C1
Future moon bases will accumulate large amounts of packaging and trash from Earth supply deliveries while needing replacement parts and tools.
- C2
Future lunar outposts will face a quiet irony: as supply deliveries arrive from Earth, bases will accumulate mounds of discarded packaging and trash while needing replacement tools and spare parts.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- lunar
- connected with the Moon
- demonstration
- an act of showing how something works or is done
- reshape
- to give a new or different form to something
- grind
- to crush something into very small pieces or a powder
- mold
- a hollow container used to give shape to liquid material when it cools and becomes hard
- composite
- made of different parts or materials combined together
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.