[Utah-astronomy] Teaching an old dog new tricks

This is remarkable. Look at these two images of Ganymede. The one on the left was taken with the Palomar 200" Hale telescope after the installation of adaptive optics in 2011. The one on the right was taken with the Hubble space telescope, for comparison. http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/776/2/130/downloadHRFigure/figure/apj484... Here is a link to the paper describing the adaptive optics system: http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/776/2/130/article?v_showallauthors=yes Seems you CAN teach an old dog new tricks.