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ACT Reading 1.6 Natural Science Passage. Which of the following statements about the Mars Exploration Rovers is not true?
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- 00:04
Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by spaceships. You wouldn't believe how
- 00:07
much gas those things guzzle.
- 00:31
Which of the following statements about the Mars Exploration Rovers is NOT true?
- 00:45
This question wants us to figure out which answer choice is telling a lie. We could use
- 00:49
some advanced interrogation techniques to get the truth out of them...
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- 00:52
Or we can just skim the passage to double- check anything we've forgotten.
- 00:55
Let's start the elimination process with choice (C).
- 00:58
The passage does tell us explicitly that the rovers' mission lasted six years, so this
- 01:03
answer choice is bye.
- 01:05
But how about answer (D)?
- 01:07
Nope, the passage tells us that the Mars Exploration Rovers' mission is considered NASA's biggest
- 01:12
Mars success, so choice (D) is rejected.
- 01:16
Line 24 tells us that the rovers were launched in the summer of 2003, so we can eliminate (A) as well.
- 01:23
This leaves us with choice (B), which we know to be untrue, because line 25 tells us that
- 01:27
the rovers were actually named Spirit and Opportunity.
- 01:31
Apparently, everybody at NASA tried to think of something even sappier, but failed.
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