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Sep 19, 2022 · Webb’s first images of Mars, captured by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), show a region of the planet’s eastern hemisphere at two different wavelengths, or colors of infrared light.
Sep 19, 2022 · The European Space Agency (ESA) announced that James Webb observed Mars on September 5, 2022 using a near-infrared camera (NIRCam) and a near-infrared spectrograph (MIRI). The first image of Mars from the telescope consists of two images taken at two infrared wavelengths.
Sep 20, 2022 · The telescope’s first images of Mars, captured using its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) at two different wavelengths, show an area of the planet’s eastern hemisphere.
An instrument that first uses a laser to vaporize materials then later analyzes their elemental composition using an on-board spectrograph. Location of the Chemistry & Camera (ChemCam) on the Mars Curiosity rover.
Sep 20, 2022 · Webb’s first images of Mars, captured by its NIRCam instrument with a reference map of the observed hemisphere of Mars from NASA and the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter.
Sep 21, 2022 · To compensate, the observation team took very short exposures to measure only some of the light that hit the detectors and developed special data techniques to analyze the light gathered. This is...
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Sep 20, 2022 · NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first images and spectra of Mars. Using its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), the telescope snapped photos of the planet's eastern hemisphere at...
