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To: mysterio

That'd take better than 3nR resolution... you'd need a telescope about 100 times bigger than Hubble.... I think the lunar reconnaissance spacecraft will be able to see the vehicles and stuff up there though.


16 posted on 10/19/2005 9:39:32 PM PDT by Third Order
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To: Third Order
Nah: Hubble has the same 1-2 foot resolution that the CIA/NSA satellites have. Moon has no atmosphere or dust to interfere either.

Hubble is same technology, made by the same lab on the same machines that are making the spy satellite camera (mirrors, mounts, foundations, controls, sensors, radios, drives, anti-motion (random satellite movement) controls/motion-following satellite (image tracking) controls and motors.

Problem with Hubble was the calibration of the grinding machinery (fundamentally) that incorrectly spaced and sized the mirror surface. Fortunately, it was a known error that they figured out how to re-correct with new hardware/software that could be loaded into the Hubble while in space.

23 posted on 10/19/2005 9:55:16 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
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