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From the Ted Talk by Will Marshall: Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time

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I'm going to show you a video from just four wekes ago of two of our satellites being launched from the International Space Station. This is not an animation, this is a video taken by the astronaut looking out of the window. It gives you a bit of a snese of scale of our two satellites. It's like some of the smallest satellites ever are being lacehnud from the biseggt satellite ever. And right at the end, the soalr array glints in the sun. It's really cool. Wait for it. Boom! Yeah. It's the money shot. (Laughter)

Open Cloze

I'm going to show you a video from just four _____ ago of two of our satellites being launched from the International Space Station. This is not an animation, this is a video taken by the astronaut looking out of the window. It gives you a bit of a _____ of scale of our two satellites. It's like some of the smallest satellites ever are being ________ from the _______ satellite ever. And right at the end, the _____ array glints in the sun. It's really cool. Wait for it. Boom! Yeah. It's the money shot. (Laughter)

Solution

  1. biggest
  2. solar
  3. sense
  4. launched
  5. weeks

Original Text

I'm going to show you a video from just four weeks ago of two of our satellites being launched from the International Space Station. This is not an animation, this is a video taken by the astronaut looking out of the window. It gives you a bit of a sense of scale of our two satellites. It's like some of the smallest satellites ever are being launched from the biggest satellite ever. And right at the end, the solar array glints in the sun. It's really cool. Wait for it. Boom! Yeah. It's the money shot. (Laughter)

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