may be gone, but its scientific bounty will keep us occupied for many years,” said Linda “Cassini Spilker, Cassini project scientist. Cassini, we had a rare opportunity and we __5__ it” Many mysteries “With are yet to be solved, and Cassini’s mission and bittersweet end honors the precious and limited time we have to explore space. Fill in the Blanks (A) remarkable (B) beneath (C) running (D) seized (E) contaminating (1)__________ (2)__________ (3)__________ (4)__________ (5)__________ Vocabulary and Phrases 1. sign off 8. collide phr. 2. spacecraft 9. disintegrate n. 3. plunge 10. sentiment [U] vi.,vt. n. 4. 11. explore vi.,vt. 5. atmosphere [C] 12. crust n. n. 6. orbit 13. bounty 7. operator 14. occupied adj. Words for Recognition 1. Saturn 6. meteor [C] n. 2. unmanned 7. adj. n.[C] 3. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space 8. hexagon [C] n. Administration) n. 9. [C] n. 4. Titan n. 10. methane 5. Enceladus n. 11. bittersweet Did You know? Even with today’s advanced technology and science, there are still places in the universe that humans will never be able to reach. The Milky Way Galaxy is one of the many galaxies in the local group which is only an extremely small part of the observable universe. Even if we traveled at the speed of light (299,792,458 meters per second), it would still take 2.3 million years to get to the nearest galaxy—the Andromeda Galaxy To get the idea of exactly how massive the universe is, scan the photo with COCOAR2 or visit .
“Cassini may be gone, but its scientific bounty will keep us occupied for many years,” said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist. “With Cassini, we had a rare opportunity and we __5__ it” Many mysteries are yet to be solved, and Cassini’s mission and bittersweet end honors the precious and limited time we have to explore space. Fill in the Blanks (A) remarkable (B) beneath (C) running (D) seized (E) contaminating (1)__________ (2)__________ (3)__________ (4)__________ (5)__________ Vocabulary and Phrases 1. sign off phr. 2. spacecraft n. 3. plunge vi.,vt. 4. vi.,vt. 5. atmosphere n. [C] 6. orbit 7. operator 8. collide 9. disintegrate 10. sentiment n. [U] 11. explore 12. crust n. 13. bounty 14. occupied adj. Words for Recognition 1. Saturn 2. unmanned adj. 3. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) n. 4. Titan n. 5. Enceladus n. 6. meteor n. [C] 7. n.[C] 8. hexagon n. [C] 9. n. [C] 10. methane 11. bittersweet Did You know? Even with today’s advanced technology and science, there are still places in the universe that humans will never be able to reach. The Milky Way Galaxy is one of the many galaxies in the local group which is only an extremely small part of the observable universe. Even if we traveled at the speed of light (299,792,458 meters per second), it would still take 2.3 million years to get to the nearest galaxy—the Andromeda Galaxy To get the idea of exactly how massive the universe is, scan the photo with COCOAR2 or visit .