There is a very high quality video about how Solar Gravitational Lens could be used to map exoplanets, and full explanations about the images reconstruction and engineering challenges: https://youtu.be/NQFqDKRAROI
I've been aware of gravitational lensing before but this is the first time I've heard of it being used to resolve exoplanets.
This is super exciting and needs to be made a higher priority than it is considering our only other way around this is to build gigantic telescopes far beyond our current capabilities.
This is super exciting and needs to be made a higher priority than it is considering our only other way around this is to build gigantic telescopes far beyond our current capabilities.