In late 2023, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory project will start a 10-year inventory of the solar system (LSST). It should increase the number of known objects in the solar system by over ten times. LSST will deliver a 500 petabyte set of images and data products that will address some of the most pressing questions about the structure and evolution of the universe and the objects in it.
It is 3.2 billion pixel camera with an 8-meter telescope.
Most of the solar system discoveries should happen in the first three years (2024-2027). The LSST could expand the number of known objects in the solar system by 5-40 times.
The Rubin Observatory LSST is designed to address four science areas:
• Probing dark energy and dark matter.
• Taking an inventory of the solar system.
• Exploring the transient optical sky.
• Mapping the Milky Way.
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Exciting.
Anything that can start to inventory the nearby future mining sites and outposts before Greta can declare them sacred ‘solar system’ historical zones and possible pre-human microbe conservation sites; exempt from exploitation/ inhabitation. Even the Leave Mars Alone sect is accelerating. Jeez.
Indeed. That’s a bigger long term existential risk for America and the democratic West than a series of Starships RUDing on the launch pad, bigger than whatever a bunch of old school NASA administrators and Alabama senators can throw at us.
Losing the race before it can even start and leave it all to Russia and China, which don’t give a hoot what these bleeding heats think or feel.
the fact that we even know Gretas name is depressing enough, i put her next to the kardashians when it comes to my disgust for other humans