Sorry I posted today's so late.
I worked, then went boating with poorman, then had dinner at Red Robin.
Tomorrow's post will be a bit earlier, I promise!
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To: petuniasevan
Beam Boating Bonus Bump!!!
To: petuniasevan
The Hubble's an amazing instrument but it's already being bested by the Keck with it's adaptive optics. The Keck took this picture recently of IO. (without using interferometry)

Surface details captured with Keck adaptive optics in the K-band (upper left) show a comparable level of detail to visible light picture taken with the NASA Galileo orbiter (upper right). The L-band image (lower left) is dominated by active volcanic hot spot emissions, such as Loki, located near the center of the disk. These spots can now be monitored from the ground. An image of Io without adaptive optics (lower right) shows what the keck telescope would see without adaptive optics. Note that no hot spots are detected in this image.
An incredibly powerful telescope, when it's full interferometery setup is in operation it should be able to get decent surface maps of Pluto and several main belt asteroids. I can't wait!
4 posted on
06/06/2002 9:04:46 PM PDT by
Brett66
To: petuniasevan
Worth the wait. Thanks.
To: petuniasevan
boating takes priority in my book. Thanks for the Ping!
6 posted on
06/07/2002 10:00:31 AM PDT by
CJ Wolf
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