Watching the Continents Change with the Seasons
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 camera in space.
- A2
NASA has a special tool to watch Earth.
- B1
NASA has a machine in space that is called the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera.
- B2
Positioned about 1.6 million kilometres away, NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera observes the sunlit side of our planet.
- C1
Positioned about 1.6 million kilometres away in space, NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera observes the sunlit side of our planet.
- C2
Positioned about 1.6 million kilometres away in space, NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera, an instrument aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite, maintains a constant watch over the sunlit side of our planet.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- observe
- to watch carefully the way something happens or the way someone does something
- sunlit
- receiving light from the sun
- apparent
- seeming to exist or be true
- tilt
- a sloping position or angle
- obvious
- easy to see, recognize, or understand
- visible
- able to be seen
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA Earth Observatory. Read the original for the full report.