If a ball is thrown vertically into the air in the presences of air resistance, would you expect the time during which it rises to be longer or shorter than the time during if falls?

answer: the correct answer for the fill in the blank is rods.

rods are the specialized photoreceptor cells that are present in the retina of human eye. they are responsible for vision in the night time ( also called scotopic vision). they have very low visual acuity and color distinguishing ability.

as they are responsible for vision in night time, therefore they are found predominantly in the nocturnal animals.

the kind of relationship between atmospheric  density and altitude is inverse relationship. this means a surge in either will cut the other factor. density is mass per unit volume, it is hard to compute with only altitude 1,291 kilometers given. also, we could also use temperature and pressure to resolve density but they are not delivered.