If we place hubble telescope in solar orbir insted of earth orbit we may get lot of information?
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Actually, if it were able to survive such a move, this would help some things, because being so close to the earth has proved a problem for the Hubble. While I was working at the Space Telescope Science Institute, there was a bunch of panic because of the way, if I recall correctly, the planet's magnetic field was effecting one of the cameras.
But even if I'm correct, it would do more harm than good, because of how poorly designed the whole machine is. Remember, this is the device which has required two or three different "emergency" rescue missions for really stupid, bumbling reasons.
There was the "forgot to convert yards to meters" nonsense, which kept the Hubble from working correctly when it first launched and which, though you'll never hear them admit it, actually has had a permanant effect. The "corrective lense" only puts the pics back into the same ballpark, but it's still a middleman, slightly degrading the image from what it'd have been if the mistake hadn't been made at all.
Then there was the camera problem I'm remembering. Apparently nobody thought to wonder what effect radiation in earth's orbit would have on the system. I think it was the GHRS.
They replaced the GHRS with NICMOS, which immediately suffered problems of its own, again which should have been anticipated.
Then gyros failed.
Oh, and that computer...remember when they "installed a computer upgrade" in 1999? That "upgrade" was a 486 motherboard.
That's right, at a time when you were throwing out your Pentium because it wasn't worth using, THEY were installing a 486 and calling it an "upgrade".
Send this thing out of easy service range, and it'll probably break down immediately. They couldn't get it right, or even close to right, even when it was exactly where it was supposed to be.
Actually, no. We wouldn't get much more information than we do now, and as an added drawback we would not have been able to make any repairs to this instrument.
Most of the things that Hubble looks at are so drastically far away from us, that the observations would be the same regardless of where we put it in our solar system. A change of a couple of million miles would not grant any additional imaging abilities.
The only "new" thing that Hubble would be able to do from a different orbit is take pictures of Earth, as it currently can't image our own planet due to the telescope's orbital motion.
If you think about for a minute, you would realize it is in an orbit about both objects; therefore, I doubt that there would be much difference.
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