The JWST: An Awesome New Window on the Universe Opens Wide
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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The Nearanfred Camera and the Mid Intet Instrument
i know you're a co investigator on two of these four instruments, right? Can you tell us about those? One instrument is the nearanfred camera. We were actually looking through all the commissioning data, i think it was used in over half of all the observations during the six month commissioning period. Wi is scientifically capable. Has ten detectors, and each one is got over four million pixls in it. So we have sort of two camera fields that are right next to each other on the sky. Each one is about the size of the widefield camera o hobel returns about two minutes by two minutes.
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