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Can the Hubble telescope see Mars?

Taking advantage of Mars’s closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using the Hubble telescope have taken the space-based observatory’s sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. From this distance the telescope could see Martian features as small as 19 kilometres wide.

Can the Hubble telescope see other planets?

Hubble has observed all the planets in our Solar System, apart from Earth and Mercury.

What went wrong with the Hubble Space Telescope when they tried to get images for the first time?

Shortly after the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch in 1990, operators discovered that the observatory’s primary mirror had an aberration that affected the clarity of the telescope’s early images. Ultimately the problem was traced to miscalibrated equipment during the mirror’s manufacture.

What planets did Hubble telescope discovered?

What has Hubble found?

• Helped pin down the age for the universe now known to be 13.8 billion years, roughly three times the age of Earth.
• Discovered two moons of Pluto, Nix and Hydra.
• Helped determine the rate at which the universe is expanding.

Can Hubble take pictures of Mars?

Answer: In fact, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) can take very nice close-up pictures of Mars. One very nice photo of Mars was published in 2008 and also in 2016. At its highest resolution, HST can make out objects that are about 8 km in size.

What telescope will replace the HST?

James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope being jointly developed by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). It is planned to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA’s Flagship astrophysics mission.

What were two additional problems that the HST faced?

Its intended launch was 1983, but the project was beset by technical delays, budget problems, and the 1986 Challenger disaster. Hubble was finally launched in 1990, but its main mirror had been ground incorrectly, resulting in spherical aberration that compromised the telescope’s capabilities.

What did the Hubble telescope find?

Discovered two moons of Pluto, Nix and Hydra. Helped determine the rate at which the universe is expanding. Discovered that nearly every major galaxy is anchored by a black hole at the centre. Created a 3-D map of dark matter.

Why can’t we see the Earth with the Hubble telescope?

But the telescope cannot slew fast enough to compensate for the speed of its orbit so taking sharp photos of objects on the Earth is not possible. Contrary to popular belief, the Earth ( or the Moon!) is not too bright for Hubble to see. But it hardly matters: Hubble cannot track the Earth underneath it.

How fast does the Hubble Space Telescope move?

The surface of the Earth is whizzing by as Hubble orbits, and the pointing system, designed to track the distant stars, cannot track an object on the Earth. The shortest exposure time on any of the Hubble instruments is 0.1 seconds, and in this time Hubble moves about 700 meters, or almost half a mile.

Can hubhubble take pictures of the Earth?

Hubble’s cameras have been calibrated by taking (blurred) pictures of Earth. But the telescope cannot slew fast enough to compensate for the speed of its orbit so taking sharp photos of objects on the Earth is not possible.

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