PartagerDe la neige carbonique pour nettoyer le futur téléscope spatial
Une méthode intéressante pour garder le miroir du téléscope spatial James Webb parfaitement propre.
The James Webb Space Telescope is the scientific successor to NASA’s Hubble Telescope. In order to capture light from 13.5 billion light-years away, its mirror, seven times larger than Hubble, must remain spotless.
The engineers’ technique to keep it clean involves shooting carbon dioxide snow on the mirror. Crystals knock contaminate particulates or molecules off the mirror without scratching it.
Led by NASA in collaboration with the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency, the Spatial Telescope should be launched in 2018.
CryoGas International (July 2015)
The engineers’ technique to keep it clean involves shooting carbon dioxide snow on the mirror. Crystals knock contaminate particulates or molecules off the mirror without scratching it.
Led by NASA in collaboration with the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency, the Spatial Telescope should be launched in 2018.
CryoGas International (July 2015)