The science team has now released data from closer to home after the big reveal earlier this week. There is a stunning shot of Jupiter and its moons. The data is designed to test the ability of the team to produce images from the data. The scientists are excited by the quality of the images.
The images of Jupiter and the deep field images released the other day show the full grasp of what we can see with the naked eye from our own backyard. A group of people helped plan the observations.
There are distinct cloud bands around the giant planet as well as the Great Red Spot, which is Jupiter's biggest storm. The spot appears white in the image because of how it was processed.
At the left, you can see a dark spot with bright edges, and also a bright spot in the IR. The mirror segments are hexagonal and diffracted the light from bright objects like stars.
There is a shadow to the left of the Great Red Spot. Small, white spots are seen on Thebe and Metis.
Jupiter's thin rings can be seen in some of the new images. The very diffuse rings were discovered by the spaceship.
A scientist who has early observing time on the telescope to study Jupiter said that the telescope will give exquisite image stability and quality.
The scientists were very excited to see the images because they show that the JWST can observe the satellites and rings near bright solar system objects. The new space telescope will be used to look for water coming out of Enceladus and other moons. There are signs of material on the surface of Europa.
The deputy project scientist for planetary science at NASA said that it was one of the cool things that would be possible with the telescope.
Judy was able to retrieve the data of Jupiter and use it to create a picture. The Great Red Spot is bright enough to produce spikes.
Ok, here's a for real JWST Jupiter. The read noise (vertical lines) is… significant. But, look, the GRS has its own diffraction spikes. This is the NIRCam data with f322w2-f323n overlaid in red and f212n in sky blue. Bg is grayscale combo of both. pic.twitter.com/VWNXFBLpwE
— Judy Schmidt (@SpaceGeck) July 15, 2022
Scientists don't know if the "extra outline" on the eastern limb is an image artifact or if it's real.
The team noticed that the edge was weird and began discussing detached haze layers. Scientists are still learning how to read the data from the telescope. Hammel said that the Jupiter teams are excited.
The images of Jupiter and Europa were captured by the telescope in three separate observations. The observatory was able to locate and track guide stars in the vicinity of Jupiter.
Scientists were interested in testing out how fast an object could move, and to do so, they had to track an asteroid called 6481 Tenzing, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
According to engineers, the requirement to track objects that move as fast as Mars was one of the reasons for the design of the JWST. The team was able to get valuable data with all of the science instruments because they were able to observe several asteroids. It is like photographing a turtle crawling when you are standing a mile away.
The performance of the telescope's instruments was described in a paper by scientists.
Do you want to look at the data? The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes is releasing all the data from the telescope's first year.
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