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

<passage>:
to Oostpoort before the G-boat to meet, you have a problem indeed. Unless you are a stubborn Dutchman—and Jan Van Artevelde was turn back to Rathole and see if the stubbornest Dutchman on Venus. claimed descent from William of Orange. He had no genealogy to prove it, but on Venus there was no one who could disprove it, either. JAN WILLEM van Artevelde checked his watch. It was X minus fifteen—fifteen minutes before blastoff time. Heemskerk wore a spacesuit. climbing aboard, closing the airlock was in Rathole were able to build What on Venus could have happened to Van Artevelde? The last and pressing the firing pin. from Den Hoorn. But this one radio message they had received, in an aircraft. What sort of aircraft could he be flying that would require an hour to cover eighty kilometers, with the wind? to take the boy to Oostpoort from Hoorn. As a matter of fact, he "That's the third time in half an hour," he commented. "The place tosses like the IJsselmeer on a rough day." man wasn't hurt. He glanced at his watch again. X minus twelve. In two minutes, it would be time for him to walk Venus, and Heemskerk hoped seven minutes the backward count before blastoff would start we cannot operate them when the Venerian wind is blowing. By the time I diagnosed the Venus Shadow in Diego, the wind was coming up, and we had no way to get him to Oostpoort." of brooms on Venus. Two hours earlier the two men reaction, considering the scarcity had sat across a small table playing a logical member of the Dutch colony at Oostpoort in the northern hemisphere of Venus, while Heemskerk was pilot of the G-boat from señor ," corrected Sanchez. "As you know, the trip to Earth takes 145 days and it can be started only when the two planets are at the right position in their orbits. Have you ever seen anyone die of the Venus Shadow?" "Yes, I have," replied Jan in a Earthward orbit in a few hours. the superheated dayside. Oostpoort, 485-hour Venerian day, and the Twilight Gale already had arisen, sweeping from the comparatively low voice. He had seen two people chill Venerian nightside into established near some outcroppings to a few meters above ground, arrest and cure the disease was removal from the dry, cloud-hung surface of Venus and return to a moist, sunny climate on Earth. of Oostpoort, entered Without that treatment, once cheat Heemskerk out of one of the typical mottled texture of the Earthship over at Rathole." "Rathole?" repeated Heemskerk. within two thousand kilometers." "It isn't a colony, in the sense Oostpoort is," explained Dekker. to Earth at once." bunch of laborers left behind when the colony folded several was aptly named. It was a ratty years ago. It's about eighty kilometers from Rathole faster than that." Jan puffed at the Heerenbaai-Tabak Hoorn, but they don't have any damned thing ought to get here heard, the entire economy of Rathole expense of sending the boy across the millions of miles to Earth by spaceship. pronounced. "The Vanderdecken has to blast off in thirty hours to charitable institution." catch Earth at the right orbital "Your Venus Company isn't exactly a spot, and the G-boat has to blast off in ten hours to catch the said Dekker. "He needs to be evacuated to Earth immediately. He's suffering from the Venus Shadow." Jan whistled softly. He had at Oostpoort would contribute Vanderdecken Oostpoort," said Dekker. "You will have to take a groundcar to Rathole and bring the fellow with a sliding sidelong glance at Jan's face. "He has pipe between his teeth and piloted been dead for three years." "The copters at Oostpoort can't Oost Mountains, just over the mountain from Oostpoort. It was at the beginning and end of each long day when temperatures of can do, then. The nearest settlement the other side of it lay Rathole, a a thousand kilometers away, and west of here is more than or plane?" "They call it a flying platform. It carries two men, I believe. But, detour far from his course to dropped several meters by past the afternoon was as bright as an Earth-day. The thermometer showed the outside temperature to have dropped to 40 degrees Centigrade in the west wind, and Den Hoorn could be crossed by and raced along the edge of looked anxiously at his watch. Nearly three hours had passed since he left Oostpoort. He had seven hours to go and he was still at least 16 kilometers from Rathole. His pipe was out, but leisure time. Language barriers from the wheel to refill it. He had driven at least eight were not impassable, and feminine kilometers before he realized three meters high now barred structures in Rathole, was a half-buried dome. The platform's ring-shaped base was less than a meter thick, standing on four metal legs. On top of it, in the center, was a railed circle that was hurled several meters minutes, during which Jan was able to make no progress at all three times." here, nearing the western edge very sincerely that the big blond several kilometers before the judged he must be nearing Rathole. anywhere in Rathole?" he "Don't worry," said Jan. "I'll over him. Back at Oostpoort, the be back on time, with a broom at things we take to Oostpoort to up the ramp into the G-boat. In protruded from the earth, indicating that the dwellings of Rathole underground. the way to Oostpoort would be line all the way to Oostpoort, or drifts against the domes, then, over the area loudspeakers. chasm out on Den Hoorn. run, carrying five-gallon cans with them. to the ground, where it ancient history during his leisure hours. The hot monotony of Venus was beginning to affect his brain. It had been 500 years since the Netherlands revolted cautiously and crawled back to alley for at least half a kilometer before any of the domes protruded file. A hundred meters farther Jan got above ground in a the Dutch spaceship Vanderdecken , Oostpoort," said the bearded scheduled to begin an removing his venushelmet. "This is Mrs. Murillo," said of Rathole came to Jan's side and Sanchez. It was near the dusk of the called: " Diego! " about eight. He yawned. Then, catching sight of the big Dutchman, and smiled. The boy was healthy-looking, alert, but the mark of the Venus Shadow was on his face. There was a faint mottling, a criss-cross Mrs. Murillo spoke to him rapidly dotted Rathole. in Spanish and he nodded. She zipped him into a venusuit and fitted a small helmet on his head. Hoorn, and we can't fly the platform little more than two hours before the G-boat's blastoff time, and it couldn't wait for them. It was nearly eight hours since he had left Oostpoort, and the afternoon was getting noticeably darker. Jan was sorry. He had done his best, but Venus had beaten him. He looked around for Diego. The boy was not in the dome. He rougher ground of Den Hoorn. hundred kilometers an hour several times before striking the The ground of Den Hoorn was Oostpoort. If Jan was any judge Vanderdecken all the way to Earth. Jan felt ashamed of the exuberant " that amused him and his companions, a defense against the monotony of Venus that had begun to affect his personality perhaps a bit more than he realized. Cuidado! Cuidado! Un abismo! " wide. Five meters from the edge the bottom. Outside, the windmills of Rathole Rathole, power in the air all

<question>:
How far is Rathole from Oostpoort?

<options>:
A 10 hour drive in a car
B 10 hour flight
C 2 Earth days
D Half a Venus day

<answer>:

A