QB/AstroMirandaTitan

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• _See_* User:Guy vandegrift

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

	Miranda has the largest active volcano in the solar system
	Miranda has geysers.
	Miranda probably has an iron core
	Two other answers are correct (making this the only true answer).
	inspired a theory a previous incarnation was destroyed by a collision

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

	is antipodal to an impact crater
	Two other answers are correct (making this the only true answer).
	is associated with tidal heating
	is an impact crater
	is a series of rifts created by an upwelling of warm ice

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

	rivers from the highlands
	methane rain
	geysers
	liquid water rain
	underground aquifers

4

The bright spot on Saturn's moon Titan is

	a volcano
	lightening
	aurora borealis (northern lights)
	a lake
	solar wind particles striking the atmosphere

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

	3 hours
	3 years
	30 hours
	30 years
	300 days

6

The photographs compare

	summer windstorms and winter doldrums
	northern and southern hemispheres
	winter windstorms and summer doldrums
	Titan and Earth
	wet and dry seasons

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

	Two other answers are correct
	is less than one meter in depth
	explains how the elevation of a smooth planet seems to rise and fall
	is postulated to cover 15-30% of its surface
	is known to contain life

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