Saturn’s atmosphere contains methane gas which absorbs sunlight, unlike its rings which are made up of billions of small chunks of ice and rock and appear brighter in the image.
Saturn’s ring system extends up to 175,000 miles from the planet and has a vertical height of about 30 feet in the main rings. Labeled image of Saturn and some of its moons, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument on June 25, 2023. In this monochrome image, NIRCam filter F323N was color mapped with an orange hue.
, M. Hedman , M. El Moutamid , M. Showalter , L. Fletcher , H. Hammel ; image processing by J. DePasquale ) The image was taken on June 25 as part of the Webb Guaranteed Time Observation program 1247, according to NASA. "The program included several very deep exposures of Saturn, which were designed to test the telescope’s capacity to detect faint moons around the planet and its bright rings. Any newly discovered moons could help scientists put together a more complete picture of the current system of Saturn, as well as its past," NASA said in a
Additionally, three of Saturn’s moons – Dione, Enceladus, and Tethys – are seen as small glowing dots on the left side of the image. This story was reported from Los Angeles. that I have read and agree
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