Credit: Image credit: Arjun Dey/NOAO, David Rabinowitz/Yale, David Sprayberry/NOAO, Bob Marshall/NOAO, Behzad Abareshi/NOAO, Christian Soto/NOAO; Mosiac-3 Commissioning Team
The moon, as seen in the infrared with the new Mosaic-3 camera on the Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. This zoom view resolves features as small as one mile. Mosaic-3’s primary mission for the next two years is to scan about one-eighth of the sky, collecting infrared images of millions of galaxies and stars.