Does anyone know how close it would have to be to be able to take photographs of the planet?
Like... "thank you for not wasting the taxpayers' money"?Unfortunately these have been postponed indefinitely due to budget cuts . If you're in the US, let your congressperson know what you think about that.
Well, just as long as we all understand that most of the stuff NASA does is an utter waste of money . I mean, it's one thing to send a mission to Mars - but another thing entirely to spend millions trying to work out if a suspected planet twenty light years away might have the conditions which potentially could result in an atmosphere that might eventually lead to a habitable environment.