MIRI

Overview

The Mid-Infrared Instrument on JWST, sensitive to cool, dusty, and distant objects.

Spacecraft

Scientific instruments

• NIRCamNear-infrared imaging of the distant and early universe
• MIRIMid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy
• NIRSpecNear-infrared spectra of hundreds of objects at once

Knowledge connections

• Instrument onJames Webb Space Telescope
• ObservesInfrared
• Member of groupImaging Spectrometer

Sources

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

• NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

  Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.

• ESAEuropean Space Agency

  European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.