Why dwarf planets near the edge of the solar system are interesting?
Sometimes people are asking why cold and dark worlds at the edge of the solar system, far away from the sun are interested researchers? The main reason for that is those small worlds are offering the perfect place for researching the universe by using large telescopes. When we are thinking about the 5-10 meters optical telescopes, what we can send to beyond Neptune, we should find the clean trajectory for that telescope, what would be the most powerful optical instrument, what researchers even created.
But the problem is that this kind of instrument needs very much electricity. The nuclear reactors are effective tools, but the problems are that they are disturbing the telescopes, which are observing X-ray and gamma-ray frequencies. That kind of system needs some other type of electric source, and the dwarf planets, what would have icy volcanoes can offer that kind of energy source. Those icy moons are also offering a place for the superconducting computers, and high power calculation tools, which can support many types of operations.
One of the things, that we must realize when we are talking about the bases on those moons and dwarf planets is that there are two possibilities to make the base. The most commonly mentioned version of that kind of bases are the manned bases, where astronauts are operating, but the second version is the base, where robots are acting as the crew, and those automatic systems can build and give service to the automatic observatories, what are built on the surface of those small worlds.
The idea is that those systems can be human-looking robots, which are operated by highly sophisticated artificial intelligence. Those robots could have systems, which makes it possible to make glass, and maybe that action would look like some kind of "witch ritual", where robots are raising their above the rotating vessel, and then the microwaves could melt the sand, what is put on the dish. The rotating dish would make the mirror for the telescopes, what might look like rather some kind of satellite antenna, than the optical telescopes on Earth.
The simplest way would be sending thousands or even millions of small-size telescopes to the edge of the solar system. Those telescopes can be the size of about one meter, and they might be very simple. Over the mirror is the rod, what can just be pulled to the right position, and on that rod is the CCD-camera.
That system can turn to the right form automatically, and then the robot just carries it to the right position. But if the robot could create those telescopes on that distant moon, the system could be even more effective, and also if some part of those telescopes would be destroyed, it can be replaced. In those modular systems, the small telescopes are forming a large and effective entirety.
On the dwarf planets, the weak gravity field makes it possible to make telescopes, which have a very light structure, and those telescopes could just throw to orbiting trajectory by using the sling, and the gas for the controlling rockets can get from the atmosphere of the gas planets. But those telescopes can also be built on the surface of those small planets, and those structures could be kilometers large combination of the telescopes, what are the size about one or two meters. Millions of those telescopes can create the giant structure, which can deliver data from the distant galaxies. But this kind of thing is the futuristic thought about, what the research can be in the future.
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