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Originally Posted by pylon
I have a 8" Schmidt Cassegrain telescope, which can resolve the red spot on jupiter, and the rings of saturn. The best it can do on terrain is resolving a nail on a fence post at about 1 km. So even if this thing is orbiting the moon at a few hundred miles, unless it had a mirror the size of Hubbles, no, you would not have the resolving power, to do that.
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The images were taken from a 25km orbit...what do you think your 8" could see at 25km? A car? Just curious, I have no idea what size optics this spacecraft has on it.