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Getting Data about the Solar System: Telescopes and Spacecrafts – The Great Courses Daily News
Better telescopes can help us view far away regions of the solar system in more detail, but to reach these places, we need spacecrafts.
Telescopes of all kinds are used to collect data about faraway regions of our solar system and beyond. (Image: NASA/Public domain)
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Our study of the solar system and the universe changed when Hubble was launched in 1990 and successfully repaired and upgraded in 1993. Hubbles large mirror is 2.4 meters in diameter. That, combined with the fact that the telescope operates in space, where the Earths atmosphere cant cause any problems, are the important factors in the…
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