Multiple Choice
In 2008, the Cassini spacecraft made a flyby of Enceladus, one of the icy moons of Saturn. If the spacecraft's high resolution camera had an angular resolution of 3 arcsec, and it flew at an altitude of 23 km above Enceladus's surface, how large an object could be resolved on the surface?
A) 3 m
B) 30 cm
C) 30 km
D) 5 cm
E) 50 m
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