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Suppose Your Telescope Has Perfect Mirrors and Is Limited Only 400 nm400 \mathrm {~nm}

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Suppose your telescope has perfect mirrors and is limited only by diffraction. If you are viewing with light of 400 nm400 \mathrm {~nm} wavelength, what diameter mirror in a space telescope would have 1.0km1.0 - \mathrm { km } resolution of objects on Mars when viewed from above the earth at a time when the Earth-Mars distance of 80 million kilometers?


A) 390 m390 \mathrm {~m}
B) 39 km39 \mathrm {~km}
C) 3.9 m3.9 \mathrm {~m}
D) 3.9 km3.9 \mathrm {~km}
E) 39 m39 \mathrm {~m}

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