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Believe or not, that project is already underway and will use our Sun as a gravitational lens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens https://e
by lmilcin 5y ago
Believe or not, that project is already underway and will use our Sun as a gravitational lens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens
I predict in couple decades we will learn to build swarms of drone craft that we will send to the right location and they will be able to image nearby planets (one per swarm...) with at least ~10-40km per pixel if not better.
- spaetzleesser 5y ago“Underway “ is a little strong. Putting something at 500 AU is still not really feasible within a reasonable timeframe. But I think there are exciting things to come up in the next decades for sure.