Pl i need all of these right for my test (i will vote u brainliest if you get them right) 1) what are the dark spots which appear from time to time on the sun's surface called? corona prominences solar flares sunspots 2) which of the following is the center of the universe according to the heliocentric model? earth moon mars sun 3) how can spectroscopy and infrared technology be useful in space? they can enhance speed by making spacecraft fuel more efficient. they can measure magnetic fields produced by astronomical bodies. they can provide an emergency escape to the astronaut from a space center. they can determine the elements that make up the surface of astronomical bodies.

most historians agree that gabriel mouton, the vicar of st. paul’s church in lyons, france, is the “founding father” of the metric system. he proposed a decimal system of measurement in 1670. mouton based it on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth (now called a nautical mile, 1852 meters). he also proposed the swing-length of a pendulum with a frequency of one beat per second as the unit of length (about 25 cm). a pendulum beating with this length would have been fairly easy to produce, thus facilitating the widespread distribution of uniform standards. over the years, his work was revised, improved, and extended by a number of french scientists.

the political sponsor of weights and measures reform in the french revolutionary national assembly was the bishop of autun, better known as talleyrand. under his auspices, the french academy appointed several committees to carry out the work of developing a usable system of weights and measures for france. one of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based upon a length equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth’s meridian (i.e., one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the north pole).