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' surface,how large an object could be resolved on the surface?
A) 3 m
B) 30 cm
C) 4 cm
D) 40 m
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