[KevinDavis]

Has the Hubble ever discovered any Extrasolar planets???

[KevinDavis]

[onedoug]

No intelligent life there though.

[cripplecreek]

The future ground based telescopes are the death knell of our beloved Hubbel but progress is a good thing.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks KD.

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[festus]

polaroid sunglasses

Who's still using film based sunglasses in a digital world ?

[SunkenCiv]

How do pictures of Mars from ground-based telescopes compare? :'D

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this snapshot of Mars 11 hours before the planet made its closest approach to Earth. The two planets are 34,648,840 miles (55,760,220 km) apart. This image was made from a series of exposures taken between 6:20 p.m. and 7:12 p.m. EDT Aug. 26 with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Photo credit: NASA/J. Bell (Cornell U.) and M. Wolff (SSI).

Hubble's Eye on Mars
USGS Astrogeology Hot Topics
Wednesday, August 27, 2003

The Hubble images are the sharpest views of Mars ever taken from Earth. They reveal surface details as small as 17 miles (24 km) across. Though NASA's Mars-orbiting spacecraft can photograph the Red Planet in much finer detail, Hubble routinely serves as a "weather satellite" for tracking atmospheric changes on Mars and for probing its geology on a global scale.