Pre-reading questions:
- What is the most interesting planet for you?
- Do you want to become an astronaut?
Vocabulary:
- strange /streynj/
- possible /POS-uh-buhl/
- sound /sound/
- make /meyk/
- open /OH-puhn/
[adjective] unusual and unexpected, or difficult to understand
She has a strange personality.
[adjective] able to be done or achieved
It’s possible that he will not come.
[noun] something that you can hear or that can be heard
I could hear the sound of children playing outside my window.
[verb] to produce something, often using a particular substance or material
Let’s make some cookies.
[adjective] not closed or fastened
Ken saw an open gate in the abandoned house.
NASA’s InSight recorded strange sounds on the red planet. The mission landed on November 2018 with its stationary probe’s seismometer to observe the quakes. It caught more than 100 events, 21 of them are possible quakes and the sound of the wind. Mars’ surface is different from Earth’s because of its tectonic plates that do not create quakes, rather caused by cooling and reduction, which form gaps on its surface. InSight’s arm produces friction and makes whistling sounds and “dinks and donks”, a nightfall sound due to heat loss. InSight’s science team says that we can imagine on what is really happening on Mars as InSight sits on the open landscape.
True or False:
- NASA’s InSight recorded strange sounds on Jupiter.
- The mission landed in October 2018 with its stationary probe’s seismometer to observe the quake on its surface.
- The seismometer caught more than 101 events, 22 of them are possible quakes and the sound of the wind.
- InSight’s arm produces friction and makes amazing sounds.
- Mars’ surface is similar to Earth’s.
Vocabulary Check:
Complete the sentences by using the words in the box.
| strange | possible | sound | make | open |
- I can see a______blue bird on the roof.
- Keep the door______.
- I was woken up by the______of thunder this morning.
- Please write to me as soon as______.
- I’ll______ you happy.