Describe the Cassini mission to Saturn in 2004-5
What will be an ideal response?
The orbiter went into orbit about Saturn, to keep track of the weather on Saturn and survey the moons with higher resolution than the Voyagers could. It did the same kind of survey that Galileo did at Jupiter. But the Huygens lander touched down on the moon Titan, instead of going to Saturn itself.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The radiation our eyes are most sensitive to is the color
A) black at 227 nm. B) blue at 4,321 nm. C) violet at 7,000 Angstroms. D) yellow-green at about 550 nm. E) red at 6563 Angstroms.
In the H-R diagram, what are the two most important types of data plotted?
A) sizes and temperatures B) luminosities and masses C) absolute and apparent magnitudes D) apparent magnitudes and temperatures E) spectral classes and absolute magnitudes
A system's "entropy" is
A) the amount of work the system can do. B) the amount of thermal energy in the system. C) the amount of force the system could exert. D) the amount of microscopic disorganization in the system. E) the amount of microscopic work the system can do.