The Huge Impact of an Object That Produced the Circular

question 65

Multiple Choice

The huge impact of an object that produced the circular Caloris Basin and its ring of mountains on Mercury also produced

• A) a very localized region of magnetic field, the only magnetic field possessed by Mercury.
• B) melting of permafrost, causing massive floods that produced deep valleys on Mercury's surface.
• C) a pattern of jumbled terrain diametrically opposite the basin, caused by the focused seismic waves from the original impact.
• D) a very thick, dusty atmosphere that still obscures the planet's surface.

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Definitions:

SSE

Sum of Squared Errors, a measure used in statistical analysis to quantify the discrepancy between the data and an estimation model.

SST

Total sum of squares in statistical analysis, measuring the total variation in the observed data.

Least Squares Estimate

A method in statistics for estimating the best-fitting line through a set of points by minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between observed and estimated values.

Y-intercept

The point where a line crosses the Y-axis of a graph, representing the value of the dependent variable when all independent variables are set to zero.