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27-foot mirrors mounted side by side. A powerful adaptive optics system compensates for blurring introduced by atmospheric turbulence, making it one of the most powerful Earth-based observatories in the world.The Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham, Arizona has taken the highest resolution image ever from Earth of Io, the most volcanic world in the solar system.
It’s been imaged by spacecraft—notably by NASA’s Juno in recent months—but this is the best-ever image using an Earth-based instrument.ever obtained by an Earth-based telescope. The image combines three spectral bands — infrared, red and yellow — to highlight the reddish ring around the volcano Pele and the white ring around Pillan Patera, to the right of Pele.
Io, which orbits Jupiter every 42 hours, was imaged by the only binocular telescope of its kind. Equipped with two 27-foot mirrors mounted side by side, ir was able to reveal features as small as 50 miles across, a spatial resolution that until now had been achievable only with spacecraft in orbit of the giant planet.ever obtained by an Earth-based telescope.
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