Re: Apollo Landing Sites Scouted by Hubble

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Henry Spencer wrote:

In article <1130206754.977446.167050@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<cfleon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...How good would Hubble's resolution be for the Apollo sites? 

As JRF has already noted, Hubble can't track the Moon well enough to
get really high resolution there.

Can it play tricks such as clocking the CCD array out at the same rate the Moon is moving through the field of view?

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