How Voyager 1 Saw Earth - B1 Spanish Reading
A B1 Spanish text about the Pale Blue Dot photograph taken by Voyager 1 in 1990.
El día en que Voyager 1 miró hacia casa
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What you'll learn
Space mission and photography vocabulary, past narration, passive se, and a hypothetical si clause.
Voyager 1 looked back at Earth from about six billion kilometres from the Sun and created the photograph known as the Pale Blue Dot.
After reading
Article learning block
Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.
Phrases for training
Add useful phrases to SRS or mark them as already known.
mirar hacia casa
newto look toward home
The phrase describes looking in the direction of home.
Useful for talking about direction.
un punto de luz
newa point of light
A very small visible bright spot.
A useful image for describing distant objects.
retrató el sistema solar
newphotographed the solar system
Here «retratar» means to create a photographic image.
Useful for describing what a camera did.
trató de respetar
newtried to respect
«Tratar de + infinitive» expresses an attempt, not a guaranteed result.
Useful for describing limits and methods.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
la sonda
la sonda
space probe
An uncrewed craft used to explore space.
A key word in texts about space missions.
an order
una orden
an instruction
A direction to perform a particular action.
Useful for describing spacecraft control.
captó
captó
captured
The third-person singular preterite of «captar».
Commonly used for cameras and instruments.
el rayo solar
un rayo solar
sunbeam
A beam of light coming from the Sun.
Useful for describing photographs and light.
apenas
apenas
barely
The adverb means that something is only just visible or possible.
It makes descriptions more precise.
procesó
procesó
processed
The third-person singular preterite of «procesar».
Useful for describing work with digital data.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
había pasado
había pasado
had passed
The pluperfect shows an action completed before another past event.
It helps order two events in the past.
cuando hizo la foto
cuando hizo la foto
when it took the photograph
«Cuando» introduces a time clause with a completed past action.
It connects events in a narrative.
se conoce como
se conoce como
is known as
The passive «se» construction focuses on the name rather than the person using it.
It is common in explanatory texts.
Si pudieras mirar
Si pudieras mirar
If you could look
«Si + imperfect subjunctive» introduces a hypothetical condition.
It helps discuss unreal or imagined situations.
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