EP COSMIC PERSPECTIVE-MOD.MASTERING
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Chapter 9, Problem 51EAP
Mystery Planet. It’s the year 2098, and you are designing a robotic mission to a newly discovered planet around a nearby star that is nearly identical to our Sun. The planet is as large in radius as Venus, rotates with the same daily period as Mars, and lies 1.2 AU from its star. Your spacecraft will orbit but not land on the planet.
- Some of your colleagues believe that the planet has no metallic core. How could you support or refute their hypothesis?
- Other colleagues suspect that the planet has no atmosphere, but the instruments designed to study the planet’s atmosphere fail because of a software error. However, the spacecraft can still photograph geological features. How could you use the spacecraft’s photos of geological features to determine whether a significant atmosphere is (or was) present on this planet?
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