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1. The 1982 Voyager flyby of Miranda (a moon of Uranus) established that _____

___ a) Miranda has the largest active volcano in the solar system

___ b) Two other answers are correct (making this the only true answer).

___ c) Miranda has geysers.

___ d) Miranda probably has an iron core

___ e) inspired a theory a previous incarnation was destroyed by a collision

2. It has been suggested that Miranda's "racetrack"

___ a) Two other answers are correct (making this the only true answer).

___ b) is antipodal to an impact crater

___ c) is associated with tidal heating

___ d) is a series of rifts created by an upwelling of warm ice

___ e) is an impact crater

3. According to Wikipedia, the largest lakes on Titan are probably fed by

___ a) methane rain

___ b) liquid water rain

___ c) geysers

___ d) underground aquifers

___ e) rivers from the highlands

4.

The bright spot on Saturn's moon Titan is

___ a) solar wind particles striking the atmosphere

___ b) a volcano

___ c) a lake

___ d) lightening

___ e) aurora borealis (northern lights)

5. One "year" on Saturn's largest moon Titan lasts

___ a) 30 years

___ b) 3 hours

___ c) 300 days

___ d) 30 hours

___ e) 3 years

6.

The photographs compare

___ a) summer windstorms and winter doldrums

___ b) wet and dry seasons

___ c) Titan and Earth

___ d) winter windstorms and summer doldrums

___ e) northern and southern hemispheres

7. The liquid water ocean of Saturn's largest moon Titan,

___ a) is postulated to cover 15-30% of its surface

___ b) is less than one meter in depth

___ c) Two other answers are correct

___ d) explains how the elevation of a smooth planet seems to rise and fall

___ e) is known to contain life

Key to AstroMirandaTitan_Study-v1s1

1. The 1982 Voyager flyby of Miranda (a moon of Uranus) established that _____

- a) Miranda has the largest active volcano in the solar system

- b) Two other answers are correct (making this the only true answer).

- c) Miranda has geysers.

- d) Miranda probably has an iron core

+ e) inspired a theory a previous incarnation was destroyed by a collision

2. It has been suggested that Miranda's "racetrack"

+ a) Two other answers are correct (making this the only true answer).

- b) is antipodal to an impact crater

- c) is associated with tidal heating

- d) is a series of rifts created by an upwelling of warm ice

- e) is an impact crater

3. According to Wikipedia, the largest lakes on Titan are probably fed by

- a) methane rain

- b) liquid water rain

- c) geysers

+ d) underground aquifers

- e) rivers from the highlands

4.

The bright spot on Saturn's moon Titan is

- a) solar wind particles striking the atmosphere

- b) a volcano

+ c) a lake

- d) lightening

- e) aurora borealis (northern lights)

5. One "year" on Saturn's largest moon Titan lasts

+ a) 30 years

- b) 3 hours

- c) 300 days

- d) 30 hours

- e) 3 years

6.

The photographs compare

- a) summer windstorms and winter doldrums

- b) wet and dry seasons

+ c) Titan and Earth

- d) winter windstorms and summer doldrums

- e) northern and southern hemispheres

7. The liquid water ocean of Saturn's largest moon Titan,

- a) is postulated to cover 15-30% of its surface

- b) is less than one meter in depth

- c) Two other answers are correct

+ d) explains how the elevation of a smooth planet seems to rise and fall

- e) is known to contain life

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