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NASA says Webb offers a unique view of Mars with its unparalleled infrared sensitivity.  ...

The James Webb telescope has captured its first images and spectra of the Red Planet, according to NASA, which is collaborating with scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on the James Webb project. Webb, which launched in December 2021 and is located roughly 1.6 million kilometers away from Earth,

The James Webb Space Telescopes main goal is to detect faint light from distant galaxies, but it recently observed one of the brightest objects in the night sky: Mars.

The James Webb Space Telescope has made incredible headway, peering farther across space and time than any telescope that came before.

Infrared images of Mars show unexpected surface features.

The powerful space telescope used its potent infrared instruments to reveal unseen features from both Mars' surface and atmosphere.

With some adjustments, the highly sensitive telescope could successfully observe the bright Red Planet

The new images depict Mars' eastern hemisphere in different wavelengths of infrared light.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope sent the first images of the red planet, this mission is done in collaboration with the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency

The telescope, in its first image of Mars, captured the Red Planet using its Near-Infrared Camera. Due to the closeness of the planet to the observatory, it was a blinding experience.