United States (MiMorelia.com).- The James Webb Space Telescope of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration better known as the JAR for its acronym in English, captured its first images and spectra of Mars on September 5.
The telescope, which is part of an international collaboration with the THIS (European Space Agency) and the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), offers a unique perspective with its infrared sensitivity on the neighboring planet, supplementing the data collected by orbiters, rovers and other telescopes.
Webb can capture images and spectral with the resolution necessary to study short-term phenomena such as dust storms, weather conditions, seasonal changes and, in the same observation, processes that occur at different times, during the day, at sunset and at night.
The Red Planet is one of the brightest objects in the night sky in terms of visible light (which human eyes can see) and infrared light which Webb is designed to detect.
astronomers adjusted the extreme brightness of Mars using very short exposures, measuring only part of the light reaching the detectors and applying special data analysis techniques.
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