So sensitive to light is Webb that it had to be pointed at only tiny parts of Saturn at any one time to prevent its detectors from being overwhelmed. The resulting images are therefore overlaid ...

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whereas Saturn's banded appearance is more readily apparent at wavelengths sensing the troposphere. The spatial resolution of the images gets worse at longer wavelengths due to diffraction.