Saturn, you're *glowing*!
. The rings of Saturn are made up of rocky and icy fragments, with particles running in size from smaller than a single grain of sand up to some that are as large as mountains here on Earth. Researchers recently used JWST to explore the moon Enceladus, and found a
that contains both particles and plentiful amounts of water vapor. This moon plume feeds Saturn’s E ring.Cassini spacecraft observed the atmosphere at greater clarity, but this is the first time that the atmosphere has been observed this clearly at this particular wavelength , which is unique to JWST. The planet’s northern hemisphere has large, dark, diffuse structures that don’t follow its lines of latitude, so
, this image is lacking the familiar striped appearance that is typically seen from Saturn’s deeper atmospheric layers.Comparing Saturn’s northern and southern poles in this image shows differences that are typical with the known. Saturn is currently experiencing summertime in its northern pole, with the southern pole emerging from darkness at the end of its winter.
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