Hubble is in space to easily avoid turbulence, it's outside most of the atmosphere. Pointing it to Earth would show blur images.
2012/6/4 Terry Blanton <[email protected]> > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> Yes, Hubble is a deep space telescope. No comparison. > > > > > > NASA says they can use 'em for a wide angle application. > > I'm sure. But "wide" is a relative term. > > "According to the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Hubble Ultra > Deep Field has an angular size of 11.5 square arcminutes. That means > that it would take 12,913,983 Deep Field images to cover the entire > sphere of the sky!" > > http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=720 > > If it could focus on the Earth, it could count your pubic hairs. ;-) > > T > > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ [email protected]
