NASA has acquired two high quality space telescopes meant to fly in now-cancelled spy satellites, and the agency is trying to decide how to use them. One proposal for one of them is to build the Mars Orbiting Space Telescope.
MOST would be versatile. It would not only provide unprecedented views of the surface of Mars-- helping NASA choose a site for the first manned base, for example-- but it would also allow closer study of asteroids in the Main Belt, as well as of the outer planets and their major moons, than is possible from Earth.
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