Refer to Figures 10-17, 10-23a, and 10-24 in the Text

question 175

Multiple Choice

Refer to Figures 10-17, 10-23a, and 10-24 in the text. The surfaces of Ida, Mathilde, and Eros, asteroids photographed by the Galileo and NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft are

• A) densely covered with ancient large and small overlapping craters, similar to the surface of the highland areas of the Moon.
• B) irregular, somewhat rounded, and moderately cratered.
• C) covered with ice that is crisscrossed with cracks and systems of parallel grooves.
• D) covered with young, sharp, jagged protrusions, due to fragmentation by collision with other asteroids, and few craters.

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