... Telescopes – Space Based With technology advancing, any blurriness which interferes with ground-based telescopes is corrected. Ground-based telescoped suffer from light pollution, atmospheric disturbances and weather systems. In addition, the Earth's atmosphere limits the sharpness of the images taken. Space telescope do not have to worry about the atmosphere distorting the images and can operate 24hrs a day, but ... for telescopes include: A 6m primary mirror- which will give 6 times more collecting area. This will keep the instruments working. Sunshield- protects the telescope from s...

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... engines. These engines are not for quick accelerations to high velocity. Ion engines take time to get up to speed and maintain. However, this type of engine is capable of maintaining a given speed with great efficiency. There are four major components to an ion engine system: a power source (such as the solar panels), a power processing unit that converts the solar power into electrical ... current, a computer monitoring system, and the engine/thrust system. This list explains the name "solar electric" due to the use of solar conductive panels for harvesting light ... comets, missions ...

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... is just what we can see, because we can only see and look so far, due to the limitation of light. Then, inside of these galaxies we have to look at the billions of stars to look for planetary systems like our own. One of the most debated theories towards the possibility extraterrestrial life is the Drake Equation. Frank Drake created this equation at the ... complex, talk with them? We have a problem, a very big problem. Let's say we found a planetary system in our closest neighbor galaxy, Andromeda. If we sent out radio waves of communication, at the speed of light it would take roughl...

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