Lecture

Astronaut's Vision: Distinguishing a House from Space

Description

This lecture discusses the possibility of an astronaut being able to distinguish a house from 250 km in orbit, based on the Rayleigh criterion which relates the wavelength of light, the angle it forms with the retina, and the pupil diameter. By applying this criterion to the scenario, considering a pupil diameter of 5 mm and a visible light wavelength of 500 nm, it is theoretically possible to distinguish a house at that distance.

Instructor

reprehenderit occaecat

Tempor eu incididunt sunt irure excepteur. Consectetur sit sunt deserunt proident aliqua. Do in Lorem fugiat dolor.

Official source

https://mediaspace.epfl.ch/media/0_gs0n5ij8

About this result

This page is automatically generated and may contain information that is not correct, complete, up-to-date, or relevant to your search query. The same applies to every other page on this website. Please make sure to verify the information with EPFL's official sources.

Ontological neighbourhood

Psychology

Basic psychology: Cognitive psychology

Related lectures (31)

Graph Chatbot

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.