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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Does "left them all in the dust" mean "left them far behind"?
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As if that weren’t enough for the red planet, both India and the United States launched Mars orbiters in November. And by December, China became only the third country ever to send a rover to the Moon.
NASA’s Voyager spacecraft left them all in the dust. After a journey of 36 years and 19 billion kilometres, the Voyager 1 probe finally crossed the boundary into interstellar space. The actual transition took place in August 2012, but not until this year were project scientists confident enough to announce the final exit into the void between the stars. Next stop for Voyager 1: drifting past a star in the constellation Camelopardalis, about 40,000 years from now.
As if that weren’t enough for the red planet, both India and the United States launched Mars orbiters in November. And by December, China became only the third country ever to send a rover to the Moon.
NASA’s Voyager spacecraft left them all in the dust. After a journey of 36 years and 19 billion kilometres, the Voyager 1 probe finally crossed the boundary into interstellar space. The actual transition took place in August 2012, but not until this year were project scientists confident enough to announce the final exit into the void between the stars. Next stop for Voyager 1: drifting past a star in the constellation Camelopardalis, about 40,000 years from now.
Top answer
Yes. It alludes to a horse race where the winner kicks up dirt and dust, and all the others are in the dust of the winner.
- Yes.
- It alludes to a horse race where the winner kicks up dirt and dust, and all the others are in the dust of the winner.
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Yes. It alludes to a horse race where the winner kicks up dirt and dust, and all the others are in the dust of the winner.
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