English II
Lab 3
Group 4
Part I Complete with the missing terms.
1. Amazon is in talks with
Chilean officials to store and ____________________ what is
called astrodata -- information gathered by the telescopes.
2. If an agreement is
reached, the company may be able to use the information to develop _______________
_______________
(AI) tools.
3. This means the
information would be stored over the internet instead of a computer
______________ _______________.
4. The government has yet
to provide details of the __________________possibilities.
5. Amazon has been talking
with Chile for two years about a possible _______________ ________________.
6. Smith was involved in
email exchanges between
7. _____________________ and Chilean officials
over the past six months. At the time, Smith was with AURA observatory, which
leads three of the U.S. financed telescope projects in Chile.
8. He said the Chilean
telescopes “can ______________________ from the cloud” by
easing the difficulty of dealing with information technology.
9. Many of the world’s
most powerful telescopes operate in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the _______________ _______________on earth.
10. They said there are
ways such data could help with more Earth- _________________ issues.
11. Pertuze spoke at an
event announcing Chile’s aim to build a __________________ observatory
on the cloud.
12. The Giant Magellan
Telescope is expected to give humans a ________________ of the
edge of the universe. The project will cost $1 billion to complete.
13. The huge device will
have seven round _____________________ that will be 24 meters
around.
14. The telescope and its
computer will make the Giant Magellan Telescope 10 times as
____________________________________________
as the American
space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Part II Answer these questions.
1.
What is Amazon hoping to store and mine?
2.
Why is Northern Chile considered a perfect place to
observe the night sky?
3.
When will Chile's Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
be fully operational?
4.
How much more accurate will the Giant Magellan
Telescope be than the Hubble Space Telescope?
Part III
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