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re:Telescopes in space
Chris Vancil — (archived)

In case you think I was belittling your being polite in my above post I was not. But, people do get tried of Ed's and Barry's rudeness and reply with invectives of their own.

Sure there's dust on Mars, but Ken reasonable wasn't talking about using Mars as a base for telescopes for Impactor detection. Of the two places the Moon's dust properties are better know and it is not good news for people planning to use if for telescope either optical or radio.

Mars' dust must logically be somewhere between Earths "smooth" dust and the Moon's rough "broken glass" dust. Where on that sclae it is depends on weathering. The Moon's and Martian dust seem to both present static properties...how bad this is at Mars is subjective at the moment.

What does any current space based telescope use to protect it form the sun? The farside of the Moon blocks out the sun for 14 days only and more importantly it blocks out half the sky at all times.

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