NASA has released a new batch of images from the James Webb Space Telescope, this time, featuring Jupiter and some of its moons.
The images of our solar system’s biggest planet were taken using the telescope’s near infrared camera during instrument tests before official operations began on July 12. They come on the heels of NASA’s first batch of images from the James Webb Space Telescope, a set of deep field photos showing distant galaxies.
“I couldn’t believe that we saw everything so clearly, and how bright they were,” said Stefanie Milam, Webb’s deputy project scientist for planetary science, in a media release on Thursday. “It’s really exciting to think of the capability and opportunity that we have for observing these kinds of objects in our solar system.”
“Because we're looking at infrared and we're seeing heat patterns, we're able to see things in action that sometimes wouldn't be quite as visible,” Groff said. “So studying something like the Great Red Spot or studying something like any sort of active process using infrared gives us a chance to look at energy dynamics that are involved in a different way than you wouldn’t with just visible observation.
For example, NASA scientists will attempt to see if they can capture images of plumes of material spewing out of moons like Jupiter’s Europa and Satern’s Enceladus, as well as the signatures of plumes depositing material on the surface of Europa, the agency said in aNASA’s scientists are particularly interested in learning more about Europa, due to the possibility that it may beGroff said anything scientists are able to learn about Europa and other objects in our solar system using Webb could...
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