2012阅读理解(含练习解析及译文（2012 reading comprehension (including exercise analysis and translation)）.docVIP

2012阅读理解(含练习解析及译文（2012 reading comprehension (including exercise analysis and translation)） + 第四＋五篇 small but wise is december 14, nasa1 blasted a small but mighty telescope into space. the telescope is called wise and is about as wide around as a trashcan. don t let its small size fool you: wise has a powerful digital camera, and it will be taking pictures of some of the wildest objects2 in the known universe, including asteroids, faint stars, blazing galaxies3 and giant clouds of dust where planets and stars are born. i m very excited because we re going to be seeing parts of the universe that we haven t seen before, said ned wright, a ment who directs the wise project. since arriving in space, the wise telescope has been circling the earth, held by gravity in a polar orbit4 (this means it crosses close to the north and south poles with each lap5).its camera. pointed outward, away from the earth, and the wise will snap a picture of a different part of the sky every 11 minutes. after six months it will have taken pictures across the entire sky. the pictures taken by wise won t be like everyday digital photographs, however. wise stands for wide field infrared survey explorer. as its name suggests, the wise camera takes pictures of features that give off infrared radiation6. radiation is energy that travels as a wave. visible light, including the familiar spectrum of light7 that becomes visible in a rainbow, is an show the way of radiation. when an ordinary digital camera takes a picture of a tree, for show the way, it receives the waves of visible light that are reflected off the tree. when these waves enter the camera through the lens, they re processed by the camera, which then puts the image together. waves of infrared radiation are longer than waves of visible light, so ordinary digital cameras don t see them, and neither do the eyes of human beings. although invisible to the eye, longer infrared radiation can be detected as warmth by the skin. that s a key idea