The Webb Telescope is full of precise optical components, some of which include lenses made out of salt. Why? Find out why our infrared telescope requires this unexpected lens in this episode of Elements of Webb.

Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Sophia Roberts (AIMM): Lead Producer
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Bailee DesRocher (USRA): Animator
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