Producing Rocket Fuel and Oxygen on 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
Lanie McKinney is making technology for space.
- A2
Lanie McKinney is a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- B1
Lanie McKinney is a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- B2
Lanie McKinney is a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- C1
Planning for future human missions to Mars involves solving significant logistical problems regarding transportation and survival.
- C2
As the logistics of interplanetary exploration transition from theoretical frameworks to tangible planning, the scale of the hurdles involved in sustaining human life millions of miles from home has come into focus.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- doctoral
- Relating to the highest degree awarded by a university.
- develop
- To design or make a new idea, product, or system over time.
- atmosphere
- The mixture of gases that surrounds a planet.
- conversion
- The process of changing something from one form or system to another.
- membrane
- A thin piece of skin or material that connects or covers parts of a body or machine, often allowing some substances to pass through.
- recycle
- To treat things that have already been used so that they can be used again.
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.