GK
SOLAR SYSTEM
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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To the top of a mountain.
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To the Sun.
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To planets like Jupiter or Saturn.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -As a gas giant, Saturn doesn’t have a true surface. The planet is mostly swirling gases and liquids deeper down. While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Saturn, it wouldn’t be able to fly through unscathed either.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cassini carried a passenger to the Saturn system, the European Huygens probe-the first human-made object to land on a world in the distant outer solar system. After 20 years in space-13 of those years exploring Saturn-Cassini exhausted its fuel supply.
Detailed explanation-3: -A space probe is launched from Earth with a set of scientific instruments and tools used to study the atmosphere and composition of space and other planets, moons, or celestial bodies. A probe may operate far out in space, or it may orbit or land on a planet or a moon.