Earth Sciences 1086F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
24 Feb 2020
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Lecture 5 - the geometry of the solar system. Last trip installed a wide field camera and a cosmic origins spectrograph: nasa announced that they were banning any future service calls because of new safety regulations (arising from the shuttle columbia disaster) James webb space telescope (jwst) is a replacement, and is set to launch in 2018: 6. 5 m in diameter mirror and a sunshield the size of a tennis court. Sometimes called "invisible astronomy: all telescopes gather energy; optical ones gather wavelengths of energy between 400nm and. "dishes" have been built to collect every other energy range possible. Classification of planets: until august 2006, we could use a pneumonic (my very excellent mother just served us nine. Pizzas) to put the 9 planets of the solar system in order: since august 2006, we have a whole new classification of planets, dwarf planets, and small.
