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Formation of spacecraft instrumentation

It's complicated, but the general answer is that anything going into space is going to be, at minimum, heavily modified to handle the unique challenges of an environment that earthly tech doesn't ...
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Formation of spacecraft instrumentation

Science spacecraft are custom-built, instruments tailored for the specific mission (and the mission custom-tailored to the available instruments - it's a inter-dependent process), taking into account ...
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Calculating intensity of moonlight per unit area

You can do a rough 0th order estimate: The Sun has about $1360 W/m^2$ on the Earth's surface and a brightness of $\approx -26$ magnitudes. Every 5 magnitudes corresponds to a factor 100 in brightness ...
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Radio Astronomy Data Handling (Filtering What One Needs)

While @planetmaker has given the "simple answer" The simple answer is: not without further knowledge as you have 2D data (the image) and want to derive 3D data (the objects and their ...
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Radio Astronomy Data Handling (Filtering What One Needs)

Essentially you are asking "I do have an image. Can I tell which objects or pixels are in the foreground and which are in the background? At which distance is the object situated the light comes ...
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