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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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