How could an observatory on Mars would improve stellar parallax measurements?
1 Answer
Mar 17, 2016
For measuring parallax we normally take earths orbit as base THat is 300 million kilometers..
Explanation:
If w e take the base from mars orbit it will be 460 million kilometers.
So we can measure smaller angles.This help us to measure far way stars that can be done from Earth.
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