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James Webb Space Telescope team quietly releases a picture of Jupiter
- perihelions 4y agoThe source document is: https://www.stsci.edu/files/live/sites/www/files/home/jwst/documentation/_documents/jwst-science-performance-report.pdf https://www.stsci.edu/files/live/sites/www/files/home/jwst/d... ("Characterization of JWST science performance from commissioning", 60 pages) (It's described in the article, but not actually *linked*, so here you go)
- oidar 4y agoI would love to see a picture of earth from that vantage point. It should be an easier photo to take b/c the earth is "stationary" because the JWST parted in the la grange point.
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agoit can't punt at earth because then the sensor would be facing the earth and sun which would break all the imaging equipment