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NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa

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Re: NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa

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Post by baggy_trough »

SoftTalker wrote: post #9
icapybara wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s an image of Europa from Webb in the article.

It's less clear than I'd expected. Is that image deliberately downscaled so as to not reveal the true capabilities of the telescope optics?

No, moons are not very big.

Re: NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa

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Post by dwaltrip »

SoftTalker wrote: post #9
icapybara wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s an image of Europa from Webb in the article.

It's less clear than I'd expected. Is that image deliberately downscaled so as to not reveal the true capabilities of the telescope optics?

No, I doubt it.

Europa is fairly small and very far away.

For reference, the best photos we had of Pluto prior to the fly-by were from the Hubble telescope, and were even grainier.

Re: NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa

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Post by mlyle »

SoftTalker wrote: post #9
icapybara wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s an image of Europa from Webb in the article.

It's less clear than I'd expected. Is that image deliberately downscaled so as to not reveal the true capabilities of the telescope optics?

In addition to moons being big and far away, the specific instrument here (a spectrograph) is not very high resolution-- at least spatially. For each "pixel", it measures the brightness of many wavelengths of light.

Re: NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa

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Post by slg »

This is obviously a ginormous leap from this announcement and just a tangent sparked by it. The possibility of intelligent life developing on a world like Europa encrusted with what is effectively a miles think solid atmosphere has always been one of my favorite feasible sci-fi hypotheticals. Could you imagine how that would impact their culture? Would they even know there is anything on the other side of the ice? Them finding out about us would be even more world shattering them us finding out about them.

Re: NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa

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Post by Larrikin »

SoftTalker wrote: post #9
icapybara wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s an image of Europa from Webb in the article.

It's less clear than I'd expected. Is that image deliberately downscaled so as to not reveal the true capabilities of the telescope optics?

Is this post trying to imply they found aliens and are hiding them?

Re: NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa

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Post by ikesau »

CuteDinosaur wrote: post #16
steve1977 wrote: post #2

“All these worlds are yours - except Europa. Attempt no landing there.” You have been warned guys… ;)

What is this quote from?

2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke's sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey
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