Name: Nasa登陸火星：BBC新聞評論 (Nasa lands on Mars: BBC News Review)
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he's a review from BBC Learning English Hello and welcome to News Review The program where we show you how to use the language from the latest news stories in your everyday English.

Today's story is about science on the Red Planet.

Okay, let's find out some more from this BBC World Service News Bulletin.

Scientists at the American Space Agency NASA say they're beginning to gather data from Mars after successfully landing a probe when the surface of the Red Planet the Insight spacecraft survived a perilous descent on Monday and has already sent back its first picture.

NASA, the American Space Agency have sent a piece of equipment there.

It has sent its first picture back to Earth.

Okay, well, you've been scanning the world's media for this story and you've picked out three items of vocabulary.

Today's items off vocabulary are probe touched down and beating the odds.

Okay, Probe touched down and beating theologies.

Let's have a look at your first headline with that word probe, please.

My first headline, Neil, is from the Guardian.

It says seven minutes of terror as NASA's insight probe descends to Mars probe a tool or piece of equipment used for finding information.

So in this instance, the piece of equipment has been sent by NASA to Mars.

On when it's on Mars, it will find information about the Red Planet by looking around the surface and by looking inside the surface as well.

So a probe is something you send to Mars to look around?

A probe is not just something we sent to space so we could have a probe in a medical context as well.

So if somebody was sick and they had an internal problem and the doctor wanted to find information or investigate that they could use a medical probe which would be inserted into the body, Okay.

So that the doctor would probe this person.

Yet a more common context in which you might see it is business or politics.

Okay, so we're moving away from the medical sphere here.

We're talking about the meaning of investigation stations in general.

So if you have a company which went bankrupt or there was some suspicious activity, then the police could probe the company or probed the matter.

A probe into corruption at a certain company or something like that.

So to clarify the police could probe the company.

Or they could launch a probe into the company which made launched investigation.

Yeah, and probes a great word for headlines because it's shorter and more dramatic than investigation.

OK, moving on to your second headline, please.

It says NASA's Insight Lander has touched down on Mars.

So if you think about a plane or a spacecraft when it lands, it comes down and it touches down the ground.

Ah, and so we use it to talk about, as you said, particularly spacecraft, but also aircraft.

Um, as usual, we can't just do a direct opposite to mean the opposite.

Okay, So what's the difference in blast off in take off?

And we probably only used blast off for a space.

Yeah, I wouldn't say the plane blasted off because that would be two dramatic.

Andi, I've also heard this word used in a sporting context.

So in American football, it's a goal basic.

It's a way that you score points on the original meaning, I think is because similar, you take the ball and you were touch it down to a certain place on the field and you would score points.

And it's also pronounced differently, isn't it?

So I could say rockets Kentucky down when they land.

So the stresses on the first syllable with touchdown, the noun and the verb touched down.

There's an area in this office here called a touchdown zone.

Does that mean it's full of rockets and American football?

Unfortunately, Ah, it is a similar meaning.

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