Sentence Correction

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft will orbit the asteroid Eros for a year, slowly moving closer to the surface of the object to make ever more precise measurements that scientists hope will enable them to understand how the solar system formed some four billion years ago.

A. to make ever more precise measurements that scientists hope will enable them to
B. to make ever more and more precise measurements, which scientists are hoping to enable them
C. for making ever more precise measurements, and scientists hope that they will be able to
D. with the purpose of making more precise measurements than ever, and which scientists hope will enable them to
E. in order to make more precise measurements than it ever did, and scientists are hoping they will be able to

IMO A. What is the OA?

IMO A

B: more and more is redundant.
D: Wordy
E: "It" refers to??? Ignore this.

C: I am bit confused between A and C. But, C looks wordy as in "Will be able to" is correctly replaced by one word "Enable" in A.

Hence A.

My guess is A