We've just been given a teaser of the moment everyone has been waiting for: a James Webb Space Telescope image of Saturn, in all its resplendent glory.
Although the final, processed images have not yet arrived, the telescope has made its observations using its Near Infrared Spectrograph instrument, and the raw images have been uploaded to the unofficialThat means we have a little teaser about what is to come when the noise is cleaned up, and the images colorized. We suspect it's going to be nothing short of breathtaking.
This is likely due to the filters used. Although Saturn and its rings both glow in infrared and near-infrared wavelengths, the wavelength range is different.,"Saturn's rings reflect sunlight at 2 microns, but not at 3 and 5 microns … Saturn's high altitude haze reflects sunlight at both 2 and 3 microns."
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