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PSAT 1.1 Reading Narrative Walkthrough. The passage excerpt most strongly suggests that the Curiosity rover performs best on which of the following types of terrain?


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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop too sure

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brought to you by curiosity They say it killed the

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cat But then why this rover look so guilty Check

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of passage nasa's curiosity drive seventy to feed on the

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curiosity can be very deceptive around curiosity All right we're

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saying that a lot The passage excerpt most strongly suggests

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that the curiosity rover performs best on which of the

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following types of terrain and here the potential answers aren't

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steep clubs Darkman insane You're over the rocky ground Okay

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so time to give this little contraption up Performance review

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this like us vehicles do better on certain types of

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terrain than on others Like we're pretty good at moving

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across grass or rocks or sand but not so skilled

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when it comes to walking on water Yeah most of

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us anyway All right so what's the curiosity rover is

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specialty Does it especially kick butt when maneuvering over a

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steep slopes Wait steep slopes that rings a bell Well

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sure it does The passage mentioned the fact that curiosity

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was ableto handle a steep slope But that hardly makes

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it an expert on that sort of terrain In fact

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pretty much the rest of the passage talks about what

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a tough time and had conquering said slope We wouldn't

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say we perform well in trigonometry just because we once

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got a circumference problem correct right We could but we'd

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be lying to ourselves Let's keep it really is curiosity

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a pro when it comes to be dark bedded rock

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Now who's to say the passage mentions that this is

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the type of ground the mission has not yet examined

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up close So yeah while you might think those professional

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basketball players on your tv make it look easy until

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you've actually done the thing it's kind of hard to

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get cocky about it so option b is the furthest

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thing from a slam dunk What about sea sand ripples

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Well it's part of the bastard sand ripples cause dr

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slip which not surprisingly is not a good thing because

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the rover couldn't get good traction there The team moved

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curiosity to iraq your area so it would have an

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easier time getting it footing So yeah for the rover

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Sand ripples were no day at the beach Which brings

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us to option d rocky ground Yep While rocks may

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Hurt our little footsies The curiosity rover is right at

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home on that rough terrain on like a geek So

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dee's the right answer Don't sweat it If you came

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up with a different answer than we did maybe you

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were just experiencing a bit of a drive slip It 00:02:26.99 --> [endTime] might be time to bail Oh snap

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