An Astronaut Standing on Mars and Attempting to Look at Jupiter

question 16

Multiple Choice

An astronaut standing on Mars and attempting to look at Jupiter would have to look through the intervening

• A) Oort Cloud.
• B) rings of Saturn.
• C) asteroid belt.
• D) moon Triton.
• E) Sun's bright corona.

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