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MIRI integrated with ISIM showing thermal heat shield (view 2)

MIRI integrated with ISIM showing thermal heat shield (view 2)


Date: 08 July 2013
Satellite: JWST
Copyright: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Gunn

MIRI will detect emission in the mid-infrared range, and thermal emission from the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) structure could interfere with these measurements. For this reason, MIRI is actively cooled to about 7 Kelvin (-266 °C) and wrapped in an aluminized thermal shield. The shield - the silver structure visible in this photograph - will also help deflect any other stray thermal light. The other three instruments, that all operate in the near infrared wavelength region, and the ISIM - the black structure - will be cooled to 40K.

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