Which of the following best why we see horizontal stripes in photographs of Jupiter and Saturn?
A) The dark and light stripes correspond to alternating bands of different chemical composition.
B) The light stripes are regions of high clouds, and the dark stripes are regions where we can see down to deeper, darker clouds.
C) There are three different color stripes corresponding to the three different types of clouds found on these planets.
D) Dark stripes are those in which there is a stratosphere and light stripes are those with no stratosphere.
Question 2
A star with a parallax angle of 1/20 arcsecond is
A) 20 light-years away.
B) 1/20 parsec away.
C) 20 parsecs away.
D) 10 parsecs away.
The planes of the body. The sagittal plane is vertical from front to back, the frontal plane is vert
Cutaways of Jupiter and Saturn
Saturn’s Ring System
Saturn’s Diverse Moons
Stripes
Children in Baltimore (1909) pull the stringy parts from beans in preparation for canning. Photograp