[2] It won a NASA Space Act Award in 2006.

Montage was developed to support scientific research.

It also creates composite images of a region of the sky that has been measured with different wavelengths and with different instruments; the composite appears as if the area was measured with the same instrument on the same telescope.

There is also associated software developed by the Montage user community including Bash and C shell scripts to make mosaics, and the montage-wrapper Python application programming interface, a part of the Astropy project.

Montage uses a BSD 3-Clause License, which permits unlimited redistribution of the Montage code for any purpose as long as its copyright notices and the license's disclaimers of warranty are included.