专题03 中国探险队登顶珠峰-高中英语时文阅读外刊精选精练

专题03 中国探险队登顶珠峰 【原文·外刊阅读】 China's Peak Mission expedition reaches Mt. Qomolangma summit （文章来源：CGTN） China's Peak Mission expedition reached the summit of Mount Qomolangma, the world's highest peak at a height of 8,848.86 meters, on Tuesday and will continue to collect snow and ice samples. The 11-member team set off from the expedition's camp at an altitude of 8,300 meters for the summit at 3:03 a.m. Beijing Time. Four of them first reached the world's highest automatic weather station at an altitude of 8,830 meters above sea level, which was set up by China in last May. Powered by solar panels, the station is designed to last for two years under harsh weather conditions and is equipped with a satellite communications system for data transmission every 12 minutes. The technological upgrade work of the station started at around 11 a.m., and was completed in roughly half an hour. Signals from the automatic weather station have been well received by the base camp at an altitude of 5,200 meters. Lunar power supply technology applied Power supply for instruments and equipment is always a challenge in this extreme high-altitude area. This time, the scientific research team collaborated with the researchers responsible for the power supply system in China's lunar exploration project, and successfully applied the technology on the moon to Mount Qomolangma, overcoming the power supply obstacles when facing extremely low temperatures, extremely low pressure and instruments' self-starting power protection in an extremely high altitude area. Compared to last year when they had to collect the samples by manually drilling, this time the members are powered by electric tools, which saves energy and is also an innovation in the scientific expedition. A slew of scientific research Dubbed the "roof of the world" and "water tower of Asia," the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau is an important ecological security barrier in China. It is also a natural laboratory for conducting research on the ev