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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Seeing those other planets has nothing to do with dense atmospheres.
Hell, there's no way of knowing what kind of atmosphere's they have, if any at all.
The problem is the distances involved, and that's not something that any sort of moon observatory is going to fix.
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Not entirely true.
The biggest deterrances to observing other planets in any sort of general detail (other than ones so far away we can only see gravitational or radio proof of their existance) is a) clouds (on earth and on their planets), b) reflected light, c) atmospheric interference.
All 3 of these can be negated by having a telescope in space (see: the hubble) but a sattelite telescope can only be so powerful. Having the ability to establish a full sized (optical) telescope (something like the LBT) on the moons surface would give us much greater optical detail into say, what's going on on Jupiter, but it sure as hell wouldn't let us see past all it's atmospheric gases/dust.