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What about the Terrascope [1] concept instead? Using the Earth's atmoshpere as a refractive lens. This requires a telescope of L2 rather than some 540AU away fo
by was_a_dev 2y ago
What about the Terrascope [1] concept instead? Using the Earth's atmoshpere as a refractive lens. This requires a telescope of L2 rather than some 540AU away for a solar gravity lens.
Not as powerful as the latter, but much more do-able just on the distance scale alone. It would essentially be an "Eath-observing" James Webb
[1] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ESS.....433310K/abstract https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ESS.....433310K/abstra...