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The granules in the photosphere are about the size of Texas, or around 1,000 km across.

The bright photosphere is much hotter than the faint corona.

The large, dark mare on Ganymede were created by lava that erupted from within the moon.

Which Jovian moon shows the most diverse terrain, suggesting a violent impact broke it into many pieces, some of which reformed it as a jumbled puzzle?

One hemisphere of Enceladus may have the youngest surface of any of the jovian moons, with volcanoes spewing “ash” and “lava flows” of ___________ .

While Ganymede and Callisto are about the same size, the surface of Callisto is much younger, with considerable tectonic reformation.

Sunspots are dark splotches on the Sun.  Which statement is true?

The solar corona is much cooler than the sun’s photosphere, hence we must wait for a total solar eclipse to glimpse it with the naked eye.

The solar neutrinos observed on Earth come from the hot spots in the corona.

The element erupting from the volcanoes of Io is __________ .