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> "The best signal we’ve seen from Lunokhod 2 in several years of effort is 750 return photons, but we got about 2,000 photons from Lunokhod 1 on our first try."

I was trained as a physicist and I'm still impressed by astronomers' ability to learn things from countably small numbers of individual photons that make it through a telescope.



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