Infrared Saturn | JWST Poster

With the goal of testing the capacity of the James Webb Space Telescope to detect the rings and faint moons around the planet, this image was taken. It's possible to see the dark methane gas of the atmosphere that absorbs sunlight, the bright rocky and icy fragments of Saturn's rings and 3 moons: Tethys, Enceladus and Dione. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Matt Tiscareno (SETI Institute), Matt Hedman (University of Idaho), Maryame El Moutamid (Cornell University), Mark Showalter (SETI Institute), Leigh Fletcher (University of Leicester), Heidi Hammel (AURA). Image processing: J. DePasquale (STScI) Licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/