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var marsquiz = new Array();
marsquiz.ID = "marsquiz";
marsquiz.sPubDate = "10/31/2003 3:58:06 AM GMT";
marsquiz.quiztype = 1;
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marsquiz[1] = new Array();
marsquiz[1][0] = new Array("How does Mars' diameter compare with Earth's?");
marsquiz[1].answer = "B. About half as big. Mars' average diameter is 4,217 miles, about half that of Earth but twice the diameter of Earth's moon. Because Mars is less dense than our planet, Mars' mass is a tenth of Earth's mass.<br>";
marsquiz[1][1] = new Array("A. About one-fourth as big",'',0);
marsquiz[1][2] = new Array("B. About half as big",'',1);
marsquiz[1][3] = new Array("C. About the same size",'',0);
marsquiz[1][4] = new Array("D. About twice as big",'',0);

marsquiz[2] = new Array();
marsquiz[2][0] = new Array("About how long is a Martian day?");
marsquiz[2].answer = "B. 24 hours, 37 minutes, 23 seconds.</i><br> The Martian day is called a \"sol.\"";
marsquiz[2][1] = new Array("A. 12 hours",'',0);
marsquiz[2][2] = new Array("B. 24 hours",'',1);
marsquiz[2][3] = new Array("C. 48 hours",'',0);
marsquiz[2][4] = new Array("D. The Martian \"day\" never ends",'',0);

marsquiz[3] = new Array();
marsquiz[3][0] = new Array("In Earth terms, about how long is a Martian year?");
marsquiz[3].answer = "B. About two, at 687 Earth days. Mars' poles are tilted 25 degrees, creating seasons similar to Earth's but twice as long.";
marsquiz[3][1] = new Array("A. One Earth year",'',0);
marsquiz[3][2] = new Array("B. Two Earth years",'',1);
marsquiz[3][3] = new Array("C. Three Earth years",'',0);
marsquiz[3][4] = new Array("D. Four Earth years",'',0);

marsquiz[4] = new Array();
marsquiz[4][0] = new Array("What is the dominant ingredient of the Martian atmosphere?");
marsquiz[4].answer = "D. Carbon dioxide makes up more than 95 percent of the Martian atmosphere. The other ingredients include nitrogen (2.7 percent), argon (1.6 percent) and just a trace of oxygen.";
marsquiz[4][1] = new Array("A. Oxygen",'',0);
marsquiz[4][2] = new Array("B. Nitrogen",'',0);
marsquiz[4][3] = new Array("C. Methane",'',0);
marsquiz[4][4] = new Array("D. Carbon dioxide",'',1);

marsquiz[5] = new Array();
marsquiz[5][0] = new Array("How high is the highest point on Mars?");
marsquiz[5].answer = "C. 16 miles high. Olympus Mons is a huge volcano that covers about the same surface area as the state of Arizona. Mars also has the largest and deepest known canyons in the solar system, measuring as much as 2,500 miles long and six miles in relief from the canyon floor to the surrounding plateaus.";
marsquiz[5][1] = new Array("A. 4 miles high",'',0);
marsquiz[5][2] = new Array("B. 10 miles high",'',0);
marsquiz[5][3] = new Array("C.	16 miles high",'',1);
marsquiz[5][4] = new Array("D.	120 miles high",'',0);

marsquiz[6] = new Array();
marsquiz[6][0] = new Array("If you were using radio signals to chat with a friend on Mars when the two planets were at their minimum distance from each other, about how long would the minimum gaps in the conversation be? ");
marsquiz[6].answer = "B. The minimum distance between Earth and Mars is 34.9 million miles, or about 3 light-minutes. Thus, the minimum round-trip travel time at the speed of light is 6 minutes. (When the distance between the two planets is widest, that figure would amount to about 45 minutes.)";
marsquiz[6][1] = new Array("A.	One minute",'',0);
marsquiz[6][2] = new Array("B. Six minutes",'',1);
marsquiz[6][3] = new Array("C. 1 hour",'',0);
marsquiz[6][4] = new Array("D. 2 hours",'',0);

marsquiz[7] = new Array();
marsquiz[7][0] = new Array("How many moons does Mars have?");
marsquiz[7].answer = "C. Two moons. Phobos (Greek for \"fear\") and Deimos (Greek for \"terror\") measure only a few miles wide and are named after the mythological sons of Mars, the god of war.";
marsquiz[7][1] = new Array("A.	None",'',0);
marsquiz[7][2] = new Array("B.	1",'',0);
marsquiz[7][3] = new Array("C. 2",'',1);
marsquiz[7][4] = new Array("D. 12",'',0);

marsquiz[8] = new Array();
marsquiz[8][0] = new Array("The average surface temperature on Mars is:");
marsquiz[8].answer = "C. 64 below zero. The surface temperature varies from 199 below zero during polar night to 63 degrees Fahrenheit at the Martian equator during midday at the closest point in orbit to the sun.";
marsquiz[8][1] = new Array("A.	199 degrees",'',0);
marsquiz[8][2] = new Array("B. 64 degrees",'',0);
marsquiz[8][3] = new Array("C. 64 degrees below zero",'',1);
marsquiz[8][4] = new Array("D. 199 degrees below zero",'',0);

marsquiz[9] = new Array();
marsquiz[9][0] = new Array("If you weighed 100 pounds on Earth, about how much would you weigh on Mars?");
marsquiz[9].answer = "B. 38 pounds.";
marsquiz[9][1] = new Array("A.	11 pounds",'',0);
marsquiz[9][2] = new Array("B. 38 pounds",'',1);
marsquiz[9][3] = new Array("C. 100 pounds",'',0);
marsquiz[9][4] = new Array("D. 170 pounds",'',0);

marsquiz[10] = new Array();
marsquiz[10][0] = new Array("The Martian environment would be deadly to animal life from Earth because of its:");
marsquiz[10].answer = "C. Both of the above. Not only is Mars' atmosphere virtually devoid of oxygen, but the surface atmospheric pressure is less than 1 percent of Earth's -- effectively a vacuum. The thin atmosphere affords virtually no protection from the sun's deadly ultraviolet radiation.";
marsquiz[10][1] = new Array("A.	Atmosphere",'',0);
marsquiz[10][2] = new Array("B. Radiation",'',0);
marsquiz[10][3] = new Array("C. Both of the above",'',1);
marsquiz[10][4] = new Array("D. Neither of the above",'',0);


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