How do we have the equipment to picture and see cosmos and stars millions of light years away, but can’t just zoom-in to examine and view the surfaces of our interplanetary planets in the solar system?

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How do we have the equipment to picture and see cosmos and stars millions of light years away, but can’t just zoom-in to examine and view the surfaces of our interplanetary planets in the solar system?

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This was asked before and here is the short answer:

The same way you can take a picture of a moving car 500m away and see it clearly but can not take a good picture of a flying fly 10cm away, and it gets worse when you zoom in.

Is all about brightness and relative speed

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