[NovemberCharlie]

As far off as Pluto is, we'd need an awfully big teloscope to do that.

[Brett66]

The Keck telescope has just finished testing it's basic interferometer configuration of a 85 meter baseline. With this kind of power it should be able to make out basic features on the surface of Pluto whenever they decide to take a look at it. The European Observatory's interferometer, with outrigger telescopes, will have an equivalent aperature of 200 meters! This telescope will be in full operation around 2003. It should yield some impressive images of Pluto, far surpassing anything the Hubble could do. They'll probably get around to imaging Pluto around 2005. These huge telescopes could yield excellent images of anything in our solar system. It will be fascinating to watch the results come in the next few years.