DARPA’s interesting new Super Resolution Vision System aka SRVS sees through atmospheric turbulence to achieve an amazing 3x better than diffraction-limited resolution. Turbulence degrades image quality but also creates micro lenses whose images can be algorithmically combined to produce a clean image. Sort of similar to gravitational lensing.
Should find good use in earth-based astronomy.
New Approaches for Atmospheric Turbulence – Degraded Image Correction
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This should be great for astronomy. I was amazed at the difference between those images above.
Hopefully we’ll be using this kind of photography in Mars-based astronomy as well.