India's Sun Mission Finds New Clues About Solar Mystery
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India has a special mission to study the Sun. It is finding new information about the Sun. This can help answer old questions about the Sun.
The Sun has an outer layer called the corona. The corona is very hot. It is much hotter than the Sun's surface. This is strange to scientists.
Scientists do not fully know why the corona is so hot. They also do not know how it stays hot. This is a big mystery in science.
The Indian mission is helping scientists learn more. New findings from the mission give useful information. This information may help solve the mystery one day.
Studying the Sun is important. The Sun affects life on Earth. Scientists want to understand it better. This mission is one step in that work.
Vocabulary15 words
- Sun
- the big bright star at the center of our solar system
- corona
- the outer layer of gas around the Sun
- mystery
- something people do not understand
- findings
- new information from research
- mission
- a special trip or project to do a job
- surface
- the outside part of something
- scientists
- people who study science
- study
- to learn about something carefully
- layer
- one level of something, like a coat
- temperature
- how hot or cold something is
- information
- facts about something
- solve
- to find the answer to a problem
- important
- something that matters a lot
- understand
- to know how or why something happens
- affects
- changes or has an effect on something
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Answer key
1. The outer layer of the Sun 2. It is hotter than the Sun's surface 3. False
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India has a special _____ to study the Sun. It is finding new _____ about the Sun. This can help answer old questions about the Sun.
The Sun has an outer layer called the _____. The corona is very hot. It is much hotter than the Sun's _____. This is strange to scientists.
Scientists do not fully know why the corona is so hot. They also do not know how it stays hot. This is a big _____ in science.
The Indian mission is helping _____ learn more. New _____ from the mission give useful information. This information may help _____ the mystery one day.
Studying the Sun is _____. The Sun _____ life on Earth. Scientists want to _____ it better. This mission is one step in that work.
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