that's why we strap them all to a rocket for a little ride.<br /><br /><br /><br />Reed: Let me give you an example of the limitation here. If you zoom in on a computer image, what do you get? Finer detail? Sometimes, yes. But rather quickly you're presented with a big, square pixel of uniform color. The better the resolution in an image, the smaller this pixel is (compared to the whole image). Any detail that is smaller than that pixel, is unobservable, it gets blured out. <br /><br />Light has the same deal. When it enters a telescope, it diffracts, it spreads and deforms (this is unavoidable). The amount it deforms is based on the size of the telescope, the bigger the scope the less it deforms.<br /><br />If a detail is smaller than the "deformed" photon of light, it'll be blurred and obscured. It is completely unobservable (no tricks can get the information out afterwards either).<br /><br />The lunar equipment is far to small for the hubble. It order to percieve it as individual objects, you need a bigger mirror (~200 ft) than Hubble's 2m scope.<br /><br />This is the same reason why your eyes can't see individual blades of grass several hundred feet away. They become to "small" to resolve seperately. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p align="center"><font color="#c0c0c0"><br /></font></p><p align="center"><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">--------</font></em></font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">--------</font></em></font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">----</font></em></font><font color="#666699">SaiphMOD@gmail.com </font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">-------------------</font></em></font></p><p><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">"This is my Timey Wimey Detector. Goes "bing" when there's stuff. It also fries eggs at 30 paces, wether you want it to or not actually. I've learned to stay away from hens: It's not pretty when they blow" -- </font></em></font><font size="1" color="#999999">The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>