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From: rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Hubble Space Telescope
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Date: 10 May 89 12:53:18 GMT
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Reply-To: rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin)
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> > How good will it be at looking at Planets?
>    
>Pretty good.

There was an article buried long ago in the bowels of Air and Space,
or Scientific American that was discussing the HST.  It was focusing
more on the technologies used, and therefore the technological
problems in bringing it about.

However, it pointed out that the operations of the telescope must be
done very very carefully, since if they accidentally pointed the
telescope towards the Earth or Moon, the reflected light would burn
out all or most of the sensors.  It continued to note that therefore
it could not be used for planetary surveys within our own solar
system.

Whether the other planets in our own solar system would reflect enough
back to actually cause damage, it wasn't specifically noted.

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