Image from 2022 using infrared imaging with the goal of spotting clouds on Titan. The white spot that looks like a bubble reflection on the upper right of the image (1 o’clock?) is a cloud.
This is not true color, but colors assigned to different the wavelengths that we otherwise cannot see. Visible light would not have allowed imaging deep enough into the atmosphere to see clouds.
Surely you mean “to see anything but clouds”, right?
Well, are they gonna let it out before Saturn notices its missing??? Saturn’s a big planet, I hope it doesn’t notice
Gotta catch em all!
what are the colors? I’m guessing thats not visible spectrum
yeah, i believe that JWST can’t see visible spectrum at all, so this must be infrared light
I can’t wait for the conspiracy theorists to say it has water oceans.
Umm it pretty clearly does.
Source: it comes in blue
That’s just what Big Primary Colors want you to think.
Yeah, to sell printer ink.
People who instantly believe every thought that occurs to them aren’t conspiracy theorists per se, but there’s not a lot of cleavage in that Venn diagram.
Very blurry for a powerful telescope. Wonder if it’s because moon is moving fast relative to close telescope so the effective shutter speed needs to be relatively high?
Have we ruled out that the moon might just look like that? Like all fuzzy? How 'bout it, NASA?
Titanically baked, blaze new world
Just shoot all the weed addicts over there. They’re happy, I’m happy.
JWST primarily looks at very large objects that are far away. Titan (and really everything in the solar system) is relatively close to us, but are tiny in comparison to galaxies/nebulae, so their actual size as they appear in the sky is a lot smaller.
Also of note, most objects in the outer solar system are very dim.
Can’t really claim we’re all that bright in the inner solar system either.
Must’ve left his glasses back on Earth
Subtle dig at Hubble, I like it
I would assume it’s because the object is too close. Like trying to do macro photography without a macro lense.
Titan is about 40% the size of the planet Earth, and is the 10th largest object in the solar system.
It’s a little blurry.
no just wipe your screen, clears right up /s
Cassini took closer pictures if you need some.
Yooooo! It’s beautiful!!! 😍
No it’s not.
Est-ce que j’ai l’air de savoir ce qu’est un JPEG?
The bad English makes it read as if there are other, larger, moons of Saturn, but the JWST hasn’t captured them yet.
I think I need glasses.
Almost looks like earth but with more land than water.
In infrared. Titan basically looks like a brownish grey blob to the naked eye due to its incredibly dense atmosphere.
People saying this is blurry… have you considered: every other image is stitched, edited, overlaid and colorized, whereas this is a picture that’s actually quite close to that from the camera of JWST.
JWST doesn’t see visible light, so it’s blurry and false color.
But JWST also wasn’t designed to take pictures of moons in our solar system, it was designed to take picture of the cosmic background and find stars with planets around them.
This is like trying to use a telescope to look at your globe across the living room, it’s going to be blurry because it wasn’t designed for that.