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ACT Reading 1.7 Natural Science Passage. Which of the following discoveries about Mars has been credited to the NASA missions?
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- 00:04
Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by Vikings. In space. Wonder how they kept
- 00:08
their horns from puncturing their astronaut helmets.
- 00:34
Which of the following discoveries about Mars has been credited to the NASA missions?
- 00:50
By this point we've done a lot of skimming and rereading of the passage, so we're pretty
- 00:54
sure we can wing it, this time.
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- 00:55
So...let's take the plunge without a parachute.
- 00:58
If life were discovered on Mars, as (D) claims, then we probably would've heard about it.
- 01:04
Unless the government staged a big cover-up.
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Whatever the case, choice (D) isn't passage-approved so we can take it out of the running.
- 01:10
(C) isn't correct either. The passage specifically tells us that the volcanoes of Mars are inactive.
- 01:15
We can also cross off choice (B), since the passage doesn't say anything about Mars
- 01:19
having an unusually high gravitational field. Answer (A) is correct. Lines 46 through 49
- 01:25
confirm that NASA thinks there's a chance of water on Mars.
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The discovery of water would be great for all those Martians who've really been needing a shower.
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