I-O, I-O, It’s off to work I go!..............
That truly IS an incredible picture, considering it was taken from Earth. It is stunning….
As long as it is not Europa.
“ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA.ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.”
‘With two primary mirrors measuring 8.4 m (~27.5 ft), it has a collecting area slightly greater than that of a 30-meter (98.4 ft) telescope.“
No it doesn’t.
Maybe it has the effective aperture (and thus resolving power) of a 30 meter telescope in one axis (direction of separation of the two individual telescopes) but not the effective area (and thus light gathering power).
Not slighting the optics accomplishment, which is amazing, but the writer didn’t even understand what the accomplishment is.