Hubble Zooms In On Moon Minerals

DIY News writes "Lunar scientists have already returned to the moon, using the Hubble Space Telescope and old Apollo Program rock samples to begin prospecting for useful ores. Locating ores rich in oxygen and metals is seen as the first step in making the next decade's human return to the moon more self sufficient and cost effective. Some wavelengths of UV are filtered out by Earth's atmosphere, which is why Hubble can do the job better than a ground-based telescope."

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Re:what?

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Oh yes.
Because its _so_ deranged to know an easy(and quite important) formula from optics 101.
Sad, sad, especially on a place like this (but geek seems to be reduced to "has at some point looked into a CS course" or "knows how to download porn via bittorent", lately)