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Observing Galilean Moons: the Galileo Spacecraft Launched Towards Jupiter Carried

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Observing Galilean moons: The Galileo spacecraft launched towards Jupiter carried a small telescope (about 25 cm diameter)for collecting visible light images. Explain why these collect images with much better spatial resolution than even the largest Earth- bound telescopes (for example, the 10 meter Keck telescopes).

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While they have much worse angular resol...

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