Gemini North Telescope Inaugurated . ... Credit Copyright: (c)1999 By Neelon Crawford www.PolarFineArts.com Explanation: A new mammoth telescope has begun to inspect the northern sky. ... The Gemini telescopes will collect an enormous amount of visible and infrared light . ... To achieve such high resolution, the Gemini's use adaptive optics , a technique that continually flexes Gemini's main mirrors to counteract the defocusing effects of Earth's turbulent atmosphere . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...