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Getting Data about the Solar System: Telescopes and Spacecrafts
FROM THE LECTURE SERIES: A FIELD GUIDE TO THE PLANETS
There are two ways in which we can get data about things far away from the Earth using telescopes and with spacecrafts. Let’s take a look at the potential developments in these two areas.
Telescopes of all kinds are used to collect data about faraway regions of our solar system and beyond. (Image: NASA/Public domain)
Telescopic View: Space and Earth
Our study of the solar system and the universe changed when Hubble was launched in 1990 and successfully repaired and upgraded in 1993. Hubble’s large mirror is 2.4 meters in diameter. That, combined with the fact that the telescope operates in space, where the Earth’s atmosphere can’t cause any problems, are the important factors in the science revolution that Hubble brought forth.