The image above is only part of a 5x5-meters-resolution image taken by the Green Bank Telescope (GBT)-- the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope. This new photograph of the Moon’s Tycho Crater contains approximately 1.4 billion pixels. That’s a lot of pixels!
The image is the highest resolution ever taken from the ground thanks to GBT’s radar technology. The scientists and engineers who worked on this project managed to cover an area of 200 km by 175 km, and were able to capture the entire crater. This early image has garnered support and funding for the project from the scientific community. More images will be released in the fall due to the time needed to process the billions of pixels captured by the telescope.
Image credit: NRAO/GBO/Raytheon/NSF/AUI
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