# Tiny Masks for Seeing Planets

![Tiny Masks for Seeing Planets](https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA20585/PIA20585~large.jpg)

- Released: April 28, 2016
- Category: infographics
- Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech · JPL
- NASA source: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA20585
- Page: https://roman.mixinvisuals.com/image/lPIA20585/tiny-masks-for-seeing-planets/

Two different types of masks to be used in NASA upcoming Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST, coronagraph instrument, are pictured.