If You Wanted to Search for Faint Rings Around a Giant

question 75

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to search for faint rings around a giant planet by sending a spacecraft on a flyby, it would be best to make your observations

• A) as the spacecraft approached the planet.
• B) after the spacecraft passed the planet.
• C) while orbiting the planet.
• D) during the closest flyby.
• E) while orbiting one of its moons.

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Definitions:

Tetrapods

Animals with backbones that possess four limbs or structures similar to limbs, encompassing groups such as amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

Early Types

Refers to the original or ancestral forms of organisms from which later kinds evolved.

Land Life

Refers to the existence, activities, and ecological roles of organisms that live primarily or exclusively on land as opposed to aquatic environments.

Ediacaran

Relating to or denoting the last period of the Precambrian era, characterized by the appearance of many large, soft-bodied organisms.