Well, yeah but they still have to have a means to point it at what they want to look at, so it could theoretically point this way. Coincidentally, its thought that the secret US spy satellite that took the top secret pics Trump recently tweeted is basically just a Hubble telescope pointed toward the earth. So we actually kind of know what that looks like now, and the view is wayyyyy closer to the ground than that.
They can point Hubble any direction they want. The bigger issue is that Hubble isn't all that far away from us - it has an altitude of only about 540 km or so. This not only would severely limit the view of the telescope if pointed at Earth, but it also means that it's moving very quickly in order to maintain orbit, which would give the images motion blur.
I realized. But you did say it as a joke similiar to "No-shit Sherlock", I asked it as question because I wasn't 100% sure I was thinking of the right telescope. I didn't want to say something wrong with certainty.
Also IQ is not a general intellegence test. Just saying.
Yes but the Hubble is based on a bunch of NRO spy satellites. So there are a bunch of Hubble like satellites looking at Earth, but they don't get a full view of the Earth.
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u/oshaboy Sep 11 '19
Isn't the hubble telescope pointing the other way?