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I'm actually most looking forward to seeing a picture of our planets. I wonder what kind of resolution we'll get of Jupiter and Mars in particular. Also curiou
by hparadiz 4y ago
I'm actually most looking forward to seeing a picture of our planets. I wonder what kind of resolution we'll get of Jupiter and Mars in particular.
Also curious about what the closest stars to our solar system would look like. Of course it also makes me wonder what would we be able to see given a 100x increase in aperture. Like for example if we could send up something extremely large on Starship. Would we be able to image planets in our local group? Exciting!
- svachalek 4y agoWe've got very good pictures of our own planets thanks to probes that did flybys. Maybe I'm way off but I'm pretty sure JWST won't be able to beat those. I also wonder if it can even handle that much light, I know it can't look at the moon or it will burn out.
- hparadiz 4y agoOh for sure it won't. I'm more interested in that as a tech demo.
- Balgair 4y agoImaging Phattie/IX would also be pretty cool. It's been a while since we've discovered a real big-boy planet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine