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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) flies at an average altitude of 280 km above the martian surface. If its cameras have an angular resolution of 0.2 arcsec, what is the size of the smallest objects that the MRO can detect on the martian surface?

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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) flies at an average altitude of 280 km above-example-1
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