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Re:New telescope images of Jupiter's moon Io rival those fro... by OldGuyInTheClub on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @12:56AM (#40570828)
I was quite taken by the ground-based photo but agree with you upon comparing the links. 50 mile resolution (LBT) vs. 1.6 miles (Galileo) is pretty cut-and-dried. Maybe the point is that LBT can do this for other objects not around Jupiter?
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Re:New telescope images of Jupiter's moon Io rival those fro... by WillAdams on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @10:28AM (#40575013)
Exactly --- a fly-by of everything in the asteroid belt for example would be a budget-buster --- what is there in the belt which it would be interesting to have photos of?
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Re:New telescope images of Jupiter's moon Io rival those fro... by dylan604 on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @10:57AM (#40575290)
My high score!! Or we could see which asteroid Han Solo is hiding the Millennium Falcon in. Or we could see all of the illegal mining operations by those pesky guys from Plural Zed Alpha Nine Nine.

We don't know what we won't see until we don't see it.

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