Already, tests carried out with a prototype at the Palomar Observatory in California have achieved astrometric resolutions of 100 millionths of an arcsecond, and the improved atmospheric conditions in Hawaii will increase this by a factor of three.

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The Grenoble study authors did not factor in influences the warming oceans would have had upon evaporated water vapor, that primary atmospheric greenhouse gas.

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