MIRI Concludes Postlaunch Prep

NASA has announced MIRI is ready for science! MIRI, the Mid-Infrared Instrument, has a camera and spectrograph:

MIRI covers the wavelength range of 5 to 28 microns. Its sensitive detectors will allow it to see the redshifted light of distant galaxies, newly forming stars, and faintly visible comets as well as objects in the Kuiper Belt.

Getting MIRI ready involved preparing 17 different modes. The last mode on the list to be confirmed was coronagraphic imaging, which involves using masks to block starlight from sensors when viewing the star’s planets.

These customized masks allow for scientists to directly detect exoplanets and study dust disks around their host stars in a way that’s never been done before.

Read more here and here and learn about each of the 17 modes here

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