Question: If you could make a space object what would it be?

Nicola Wardrop answered on 10 Mar 2013:

Well sometimes I use images (like photographs, but they contain extra information) which are taken from satellites in space – this is called remote sensing. It lets you see the surface of the earth and get extra information about it, like where there are rivers, lakes, forests or cities. I would probably make one of these satellites, which would take very detailed images of the areas that I work in. Some of these satellites already exist, but it costs far too much for me to buy their pictures (when I looked last it would have been almost £100,000!).