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Directions : Read the following comprehension and answer the questions that follow:
Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between the European Space Agency and NASA to study the Sun, was launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Mission controllers at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, received a signal from the spacecraft indicating that its solar panels had successfully deployed. In the first two days after launch, Solar Orbiter will deploy its instrument boom and several antennas that will communicate with Earth and gather scientific data. Solar Orbiter is on a unique trajectory that will allow its comprehensive set of instruments to provide humanity with the first-ever images of the Sun's poles. This trajectory includes 22 close approaches to the Sun, bringing the spacecraft within the orbit of Mercury to study the Sun and its influence on space. "As humans, we have always been familiar with the importance of the Sun to life on Earth, observing it and investigating how it works in detail, but we have also long known it has the potential to disrupt everyday life should we be in the firing line of a powerful solar storm," said Günther Hasinger, ESA director of science.
Solar Orbiter will spend about three months in its commissioning phase, during which the mission team will run checks on the spacecraft's 10 scientific instruments to ensure they are working properly. It will take Solar Orbiter about two years to reach its primary science orbit. Solar Orbiter combines two main modes of study. In-situ instruments will measure the environment around the spacecraft, detecting such things as electric and magnetic fields and passing particles and waves. The remote-sensing instruments will image the Sun from afar, along with its atmosphere and its outflow of material, collecting data that will help scientists understand the Sun's inner workings. During the mission's cruise phase, the spacecraft's in-situ instruments will gather scientific data about the environment around the spacecraft, while the remote-sensing telescopes will focus on caliberation to prepare for science operations near the Sun. The cruise phase includes three gravity assists that the Solar Orbiter will use to draw its orbit closer to the Sun: two past Venus and one past Earth.
Following its Earth gravity assist, Solar Orbiter will begin the primary phase of its mission - leading up to its first close pass by the Sun - at about a third of the distance from the Sun to Earth. Throughout its mission, Solar Orbiter will use successive Venus's gravity assists to draw its orbit closer to the Sun and lift it out of the ecliptic plane. Solar Orbiter's unique orbit will bring the spacecraft out of the plane that roughly aligns with the Sun's equator where Earth and the other planets orbit. Spacecraft launched from Earth naturally stay in this plane, which means that telescopes on Earth and telescopes on satellites have __x__ views of the Sun's north and south poles and are instead able to have detailed views of the Sun's equatorial region.
Which task will the remote-sensing telescopes primarily undertake during the mission's cruise phase?
1. Conducting scientific experiments near the spacecraft
2. Calibrating instruments for Sun-centred science operations
3. Gathering data about the spacecraft's immediate surroundings
4. Analysing data from in-situ instruments
5. Monitoring celestial bodies beyond the solar system
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