How come the Hubble Space Telescope, being capable, can photograph objects billions of lightyears away from Earth with great clarity and detail (stars, mok globules, etc.), while it can only get 'this close' when photographing Mars, or Europa or other 'much closer' objects in our own backyard?
Why even the need to send orbiting crafts to these nearby objects to get an - even then - not so sharp images?
Or maybe NASA is not providing the public with such 'ala google-earth' photos of our neighboring planets?
(*head scratch*) Refractive problems, hyperopia perhaps?
2007-10-03
16:40:43
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