The James Webb Space Telescope, which has already wowed the world with gorgeous images of far-flung galaxies and distant planets, stores its data on a relatively small 68 GB drive - that's enough to hold only a day's worth of images. Although solid state drive (SSD) seems almost too small for a piece of technology that cost $10 billion and took years 30 years to build, a recent report reveals that had good reasons to choose this type of hardware. It only takes about 120 minutes to fill the SSD, depending on what observations scientists have scheduled.
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