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Digging Beryllium for James Webb

Spor Mountain in Utah is a major source of the stiff, lightweight metal that has been used in the flagship space telescope and several other NASA missions.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. NASA photo by David Higginbotham. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published July 16, 2021
Data acquired July 8, 2021

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Photograph