Best Jupiter Photo to Date

October 4th, 2008

In August a series of images were taken over a 20 minutethat are being dubbed as the best, and clearest picture of Jupiter ever. Scientist who have overcome their nerd years of acne, and actually got jobs doing what the love were able to take a 265 photo series and create a very clear image of Jupiter from Earth with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator prototype instrument attached to the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in northern Chile.

The image may not actually look like Jupiter to many. It is taken on the opposite side of the planet from the Big Red Spot that we are all so familiar with. Regardless, the photo is extremely detailed and in a window of 2 hours they got the best look they ever have with a camera to take this image courtesy of ScienceNews.com.