Mars is a little farther out away from the sun, but it's not so much closer to the rest of the universe that gives us any kind of telescopic advantage. Big telescopes gather more light and see dimmer things. The wider the telescope, the more precise, the sharper the resolution will be for what it is it's observing. Why watch pornography when you could have a girlfriend, right?
In this Cosmic Queries episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson answers fan questions about radio and microwave telescopes, from the Hubble to the VLA to the James Webb Space Telescope.
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