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雅思考试阅读模拟试题的精选2 Search begins for ‘Earth’ beyond solar system Staff and agencies Wednesday December 27,2006 Guardian Unlimited 1.A European spacecraft took off today to spearhead the search for another “Earth” among the stars. 2.The Corot space telescope blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan shortly after 2.20pm. 3.Corot,short for convection rotation and planetary transits,is the first instrument capable of finding small rocky planets beyond the solar system.Any such planet situated in the right orbit stands a good chance of having liquid water on its surface,and quite possibly life,although a leading scientist involved in the project said it was unlikely to find “any little green men”. 4.Developed by the French space agency,CNES,and partnered by the European Space Agency (ESA),Austria,Belgium,Germany,Brazil and Spain,Corot will monitor around 120,000 stars with its 27cm telescope from a polar orbit 514 miles above the Earth.Over two and a half years,it will focus on five to six different areas of the sky,measuring the brightness of about 10,000 stars every 512 seconds. 5.“At the present moment we are hoping to find out more about the nature of planets around stars which are potential habitats.We are looking at habitable planets,not inhabited planets.We are not going to find any little green men,” Professor Ian Roxburgh,an ESA scientist who has been involved with Corot since its inception,told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. 6.Prof Roxburgh said it was hoped Corot would find “rocky planets that could develop an atmosphere and,if they are the right distance from their parent star,they could have water”. 7.To search for planets,the telescope will lo 上一篇英语： 雅思考试阅读模拟试题的精选1下一篇英语： 没有了查看更多关于雅思模拟题的文章网友同时还浏览了： 雅思考试阅读模拟试题的精选1 段落标题题7 段落标题题8 段落标题题11 段落标题题10 段落标题题12 ok for the dimming of starlight caused when an object passes in front of a star,known as a “transit”.Although it will take more sophisticated sp