An exciting new step in access to the far reaches of space and time increasingly will become available when the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory comes into full operation (“Providing a detailed look at the cosmos,” June 25).
Funded by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science, and located on an Andean mountain in Chile, its unprecedented telescopic and camera capacity will secure data and imagery essential to further knowledge of the dark energy and dark matter composing most of the universe.
In my opinion, telescopic exploring of the cosmos, along with extraterrestrial probes and telescopes, deserve top priority over anything like a plan to colonize Mars. Cannot far-flung telescopes, robotic craft and AI be combined to obviate the need for human presence requiring a transported environment? Would that not be a better investment of resources? Putting humans on Mars would be a new place for old problems.
Thomas Hughson SJ, emeritus Marquette University, Milwaukee
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