Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
a dead planet, master of the secret of immortality. It was he whom the four men from Earth had to Planet Stories Fall 1945. the opalescent mists that bathed the city in shimmering whiteness. They hung low, those wispy tendrils of mist, clasping everything in their He had flung a vast globe of transparent metal above this greatest of stored the treasures of his people. From Bar Nomala, from Faryl, and from the far-off jungle city of Kreed had he brought the riches of the suspended between the cones, in midair. All power did the cones and the chest and torso. Where it touched, a faint tingle lingered then spread outwards, all over his huge form. "Yes, I will use my voice tonight, and I will go out under the dome and look up at the stars and the other planets that swing near Urg, and I will talk to them and tell them how lonely Irgi is." He turned and went along a hall that opened into a broad balcony which stood forth directly beneath a segment of the mighty dome. He stared and the name and fame of Irgi means nothing to the walls of my city, nor to the Chamber of the Cones, nor even—at times—to Irgi himself." He paused and his eyes widened, staring upwards. "By the Block," he said to the silence about him. "There is something up there that is not a star, nor a planet, nor yet a meteor." It was a spaceship. Emerson took his hands from the controls of the gigantic ship that hurtled through space, and wiped his sweaty palms on his thighs. His in the void. "The last planet in our course," he breathed. "Maybe it has the radium!" back in the first days of space travel, after Quigg, the American research scientist at Cal Tech, discovered a way to lift a rocket ship off the Earth, and propel it to the Moon. They had been slow, lumbering vessels, those first spaceships made the first flight through space, died of cancer. As the years passed to a decade, and the ships of Earth rode to Mars and Venus, it began to be apparent that a lifetime of space travel out in space there was no blanketing layer of atmosphere to protect It meant death to travel in space, and only the stupendous fees paid to ships plying between Mars and Earth and Venus. Lead kept out the cosmic craft free of planetary gravity form of space cancer, as it was called, was in some peculiar manner, The Plague spread, and ravaged the peoples of three planets. Hospitals were set up, and precious radium used for the fight. But the A ship was built, the fastest vessel ever made by man. It was designed for speed. It made the swiftest interplanetary craft seem a lumbering barge by comparison. And mankind gave it to Valentine Emerson to take it out among the stars to find the precious radium in sufficient It had not been easy to find a crew. The three worlds knew the men were going to their doom. It would be a miracle if ever they reached a single planet, if they did not perish of space cancer before their "A hell of a way to spend my last days," he growled. "I'm dying on my feet, and I've got to be a martyr to a billion people who don't know I'm alive." "You know a better way to die, of course," replied Emerson. "You bet I do. There's a sweet little redhead in New Mars. She'd make dying a pleasure. In fact," he chuckled softly, "that's just the way fingers, the ship sideslipped into the gravity tug of the looming orb, trap, and bellowed. A hail from the depths of the ship answered him. A "The spectroscope'll tell us. Break it out." "You bet." The ship rocked gently as Emerson set it down on a flat, rocky plain between two high, craggy mountains that rose abruptly from the tiny valley. It was just lighting as the faint rays of the suns that served this planet nosed their way above the peaks. Like a silver needle on a floor of black rock, the spacecraft bounced once, twice Something whispered in the ship. They jerked their heads up, stood hull is his loudspeaker. That's why we heard him in all directions." "We're off the ground! Whatever it is, it's lifting us." The others crowded about him, looking out. Here the green was more vivid, intense. They could feel its surging power tingling on their skins. Beneath them, the jagged peak of the mountain almost grazed the hull. Spread out under their eyes was the panorama of a dead planet. Great rocks lay split and tumbled over one another in a black desolation. Sunlight glinting on their jagged edges, made harsh shadows. Far to the north a mountain range shrugged its snow-topped peaks to a sullen sky. To the south, beyond the rocks, lay a white waste of desert. To the west— "A city," yelled Nichols, "the place is inhabited. Thank God, thank God—" Mussdorf erupted laughter. "For what? How do we know what they're like? An inhabited planet "We can hope," said Emerson sharply. "Maybe they have some radium, stored so that our spectroscope couldn't pick it up." The mighty globe that hung over the city glimmered in the morning suns. Beneath it, the white towers and spires of the city reared in alien loveliness above graceful buildings and rounded roofs. A faint mist seemed to hang in the city streets. "It's empty," said Nichols heavily. "Deserted." A section of the globe slid back, and the spaceship moved through the The spaceship settled down on the white flagging of an immense square. The green beam was gone, suddenly. The uncanny silence of the place pressed in on them. "Think it's safe to go out?" asked Nichols. feel like that now." They grinned and went through the door, dropping to the street. They turned. It was coming across the square, flowing along on vast black tentacles "Look out !" yelled Emerson. The big Earthman was lifted high into the air, squeezed until his lungs spot to fire at. The thing dropped the Earthmen suddenly and launched it full at Emerson. Caught off guard, the Earthman lifted He looked at the spaceship, ran exploring feelers over it. He cast a they might be, but they had mastered interplanetary travel. Well, he'd He slid swiftly across the square and onto a flat, glittering ramp that in a long, low building next to the vast, round Chamber of the Cones. ship. He had caught a confused, angry murmur on the radiation recorder. its frame to the metal clamps. "I wonder if they've perfected this," Irgi mused. "They must be aware that the brain gives off electrical waves. Perhaps they can chart grew nebulous, then cleared. Irgi found himself staring at a city far vaster than Urg. Grim white towers peaked high into the air, and broad, flat ramps circled them, interwoven like ribbons in the sunlight. On the tallest and largest buildings were great fields of metal painted a dull luster, where queerly wrought flying ships landed and took off. him with a spaceship, reciting the need of radium, the dread of the Irgi stared upward at a colossal figure graven in lucent white marble. He made out the letters chiseled into the base: GEORGE WASHINGTON. He wondered idly what this Washington had done, to merit such undying red aura drifted upward from the tabletop, passing through them as if they were mist, rising upwards to dissipate in the air near the ceiling. "That will prepare their bodies for the Chamber of the Cones," he said. He flipped his head to right, to left saw the others stretched out "You were our commander—out there, in space. We're on a planet now. Emerson. Something tells me I'd get a fortune for it, on Earth."

<question>:
Where did the spaceship land?

<options>:
A South of the rocks
B North of the desert
C East of the mountains
D West of the city

<answer>:

B