DESTINATION MARS. FIRST STOP... THE ARCTIC? Before heading to Mars, space scientists and engineers are traveling to the Canadian Arctic
to live and work in the Haughton impact crater. Its climate and geology are as Mars-like as
can be found on arth-cold temperatures, low precipitation, and permanently frozen
impact-ejected rubble. The Haughton crater provides opportunities to test new
technologies and field procedures and to study human behaviors that result from extended
contact in close quarters. The knowledge gained from these investigations is being used to
plan, design, and ultimately to conduct the first manned and continued robotic missions to
Mars and other planets and their moons.
-United States Arctic Research Commission
The author includes the description of the Haughton impact crater
most likely to -
a. prove that this is the only other place the new technologies will work.
b. show that Mars is very cold also.
c. explain why it has cold temperatures and low precipitation.
d. Illustrate how similar it is to the surface on Mars.
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Which excerpt from the war of the worldseffectively reveals how the author relates the climax of the narrative through the narrator's thoughts? the war of the worldsall this had happened with such swiftness that i had stood motionless, dumbfounded and dazzled by the flashes of light. had that death swept through a full circle, it must inevitably have slain me in my surprise. but it passed and spared me, and left the night about me suddenly dark and unfamiliar.and then, with a renewed horror, i saw a round, black object bobbing up and down on the edge of the pit. it was the head of the shopman who had fallen in, but showing as a little black object against the hot western sun.at that time it was quite clear in my own mind that the thing had come from the planet mars, but i judged it improbable that it contained any living creature. i thought the unscrewing might be automatic.my mind ran fancifully on the possibilities of its containing manuscript, on the difficulties in translation that might arise, whether we should find coins and models in it, and so forth. yet it was a little too large for assurance on this idea. i felt an impatience to see it opened.