This kind of thing makes my teeth itch!
Are there no people out there thinking 'Why not just take a photo with a regular camera? Why not use a satleite, or Hubble or one other of those amazing machines they suposedly have up there!
No, people just read this 'headline maintenance' and carry on their day, believing how wonderfull science is.
And that radar image looks like it was drawn with ms paint...
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Yep, you read that right....Scientists captured this striking image of the Apollo 15 landing site by shooting a powerful radar signal from Earth into space and bouncing it off the lunar surface
Why not just use a camera and lens? After all, that's how we have attained those astonishingly detailed 'photographs' of the moon et al this far.... or is this a slip of an admissin that we haven't....Scientists spent two years developing the technology to take these detailed images of the moon from Earth, and now, they can capture snapshots of lunar objects as small as 16.4 feet (5 meters) across from about 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers) away. In the future, the researchers plan to develop the technology further, to the point where they can throw radar signals out to the far reaches of the solar system and capture images of Uranus and Neptune, which at their closest are 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) and 2.7 billion miles (4.3 billion km) from Earth, respectively, according to Space.com.
Are there no people out there thinking 'Why not just take a photo with a regular camera? Why not use a satleite, or Hubble or one other of those amazing machines they suposedly have up there!
No, people just read this 'headline maintenance' and carry on their day, believing how wonderfull science is.
And that radar image looks like it was drawn with ms paint...
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