To Measure How Mercury Spins, Astronomers Sent ________ to Mercury

question 98

Multiple Choice

To measure how Mercury spins, astronomers sent ________ to Mercury and used theDoppler shift to determine how fast it was rotating.

• A)probes
• B)laser beams
• C)radar beams
• D)a satellite
• E)a single frequency radio signal

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