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What Is the Character of the Sunspot Cycle

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What is the character of the sunspot cycle?


A) Sunspots increase and decrease in number over 11 years within a band of solar latitude between 10° and 30°, with no discernible dependence of sunspot latitude upon time.
B) Starting at sunspot minimum, new spots appear uniformly over the Sun but gradually, new spots become concentrated at mid-latitudes as they increase and then decrease in number.
C) Starting at sunspot minimum, new spots appear close to the equator, followed by newer spots farther from the equator until, when numbers decrease, they grow and decay at high latitudes.
D) Starting at sunspot minimum, spots first appear far from the equator, followed by new spots appearing successively closer to the equator as they increase in number and finally, spots form close to the equator as numbers begin to decrease.

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