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The article is very precise: "Both teams identified the carbon dioxide using data from the integral field unit of Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec).
by acqq 3y ago
The article is very precise:
"Both teams identified the carbon dioxide using data from the integral field unit of Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec). This instrument mode provides spectra with a resolution of 200 x 200 miles (320 x 320 kilometers) on the surface of Europa, which has a diameter of 1,944 miles, allowing astronomers to determine where specific chemicals are located."
Wikipedia article about the NIRSpec:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIRSpec https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIRSpec