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If it could see a bumblebee on the moon could it detect a while on Jupiters moons ? Can anyone do the calculations ?


It’s designed to see things very very far away, which are all severely redshifted. It’s mostly an infrared camera. In the human visual range of light frequencies, is camera sensors only go up to orange.

So no, it can’t detect a blue whale… ;-)


Well it can allegedly make photos of Jupiter that would be comparable of doing them during a close flyby, but that's likely not good enough for something of that sort. You'd have to see things through kilometers of ice.




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