Mars is real mighty! NASA releases first images and spectra of Red Planet captured by James Webb Telescope
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first images and spectra of Mars that show a region of the planets eastern hemisphere at two different wavelengths, or colours of infrared light. Principal investigator Geronimo Villanueva of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and his team released Webb's first near-infrared spectrum of Mars, demonstrating Webb's power to study the Red Planet with spectroscopy. Since it is so close, the Red Planet is one of the brightest objects in the night sky in terms of both visible light and the infrared light that Webb is designed to detect. Webb's instruments are so sensitive that without special observing techniques, the bright infrared light from Mars is blinding, causing a phenomenon known as "detector saturation," said NASA.
James Webb Space Telescope Captures Its First Images Of Mars. Know What They Mean
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