James Webb Telescope Takes a First Peek Inside Uranus
The European Space Agency announced that a study using the James Webb Space Telescope has examined Uranus’s upper atmosphere, marking a key step in understanding ice giants. Researchers mapped the planet’s ionosphere, which extends up to 5,000 kilometers above the cloud tops and interacts with Uranus’s tilted and offset magnetic field, influencing its auroras. Using the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), the team built a 3D map of temperature and ion density … Continue reading James Webb Telescope Takes a First Peek Inside Uranus
