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Mirror, mirror on the Moon -- the most powerful telescope?

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posted on Jun, 21 2007 @ 03:18 AM
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PARIS -- Desolate, airless and with no people around for hundreds of thousands of kilometers (miles), the Moon is a great place -- for astronomers, that is.



But making telescopic mirrors -- dozens are needed in a giant complex -- is eye-wateringly expensive, for it requires grinding and polishing glass to an accuracy of a few tens of billionths of a meter. And, after making a mirror, there's the risk of breaking it when you haul it to the Moon.



Enter an idea that has been kicked around for more than a century and a half -- the liquid mirror telescope.


This seems to be very interesting. "Liquid mirror telescope".
Any ATS members who has additional info on this?



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