26 July 2017
Summer Heat Too Much for You? NASA has Just the Place for You!
Posted by Dan Satterfield
NASA is cooling down the James Webb Space Telescope to make sure it will work in space.
The James Webb telescope is designed to detect light in the infrared portion of the spectrum, and its instruments will only work at a temp. of just a few degrees above absolute zero! But how do you test them??
This is how!
The room will keep getting colder and colder. NASA has a live webcam of the room online with a look at the indoor and outdoor temperatures at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston!
This is literally just too cool 😉
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.