Image of the Day: Neptune in Infrared
September 09, 2011
The great clarity of this infrared image of Neptune was made possible by "rubber mirror" adaptive optics technology. Here, mirrors in the new Palomar High Angular Resolution Observer (PHARO) instrument connected to the 200-inch Hale Telescope flex to remove the effects of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
Image credit: Credit: Don Banfield (Cornell), JPL, NASA; Copyright: Cornell U.
Reads even better if you switch the two paragraphs! 8:)
Posted by: flflake | September 10, 2011 at 08:45 AM