Sharpest Jupiter Photo From Earth
This is the sharpest Jupiter photo ever taken. It was snapped from earth with a telescope using special adaptive optics. The new technique, called MAD (for Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator), uses two or more guide stars, allowing it to remove blur from a field of view 30 times larger.
Captured using a new computer-assisted process and a 27-foot (8.2-meter) telescope in Chile, the result is sharp enough to show features as small as 180 miles (300 kilometers) across.
Adaptive optics, Marchis said, adjusts for distortions caused by the Earth’s atmosphere, “providing images as if the telescope was in space.”
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