ESA's bug-eyed "fly-eye" telescope to watch for Earth-threatening asteroids

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One aggravating property of the housefly is that swatting one is harder than it looks. That’s because flies have eyes designed for avoiding such a day-ruining event by detecting motion over a wide field of vision. Since asteroids have the potential to do to Earth what rolled newspapers do to flies, ESA is developing a telescope based on a fly’s eye as a new asteroid-hunting tool that could be the basis for a new asteroid defense network... Continue Reading ESA's bug-eyed "fly-eye" telescope to watch for Earth-threatening asteroids

Section: Space

Tags: Asteroid, ESA, Telescope, Tracking

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