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Chapter 29, Problem 71PP
If a sunlight-powered sailing spacecraft accelerated at 1 m/s2 in the vicinity of Earth’s orbit, what would be its acceleration at Mars, about 1.5 times as far from the Sun as Earth?
- a. about 0.25 m/s2
- b. a little less than 0.5 m/s2
- c. a little more than 0.5 m/s2
- d. about 0.66 m/s2
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