Author Question: All known asteroids can be found in the asteroid belt. Indicate whether the statement is true or ... (Read 65 times)

tiara099 · **on:** Jul 27, 2018

All known asteroids can be found in the asteroid belt.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 2

Why do scientists think the Cassini spacecraft did not observe spokes on the rings during the first year of its visit with Saturn?

A) The spokes observed before were a phenomenon of the Voyager 2 camera.
B) The spokes are not a regular phenomenon of Saturn's rings. They occur only in certain seasons.
C) The spokes are related to Saturn's magnetic field and the Cassini spacecraft was located inside Saturn's magnetic field, while Voyager 2 was not.
D) The Cassini spacecraft was not looking in the right part of Saturn's ring system to see the spokes.
E) To see the spokes, a particular alignment of the rings with the Sun is necessary and it took one year for that alignment to reoccur.