JWST unfortunately will never be facing the moon. It's designed and placed specifically to null out the moon as a light source. There are already commissioning photos of a planet. Look at the unprocessed images of Jupiter below. On the right, you can see Jupiter's ring (near Thebe) and some of the moons.
Watched a NOVA special about WEBB last night - That deep field image showing thousands of Galaxies was described thus: Imagine a person extending their hand out and pointing up, holding up (1) tiny grain of sand. From a point, the size of a grain of sand, Webb, is detecting thousands if not 10's of thousands of (Not Stars)........... entire Galaxies, via deep field. viewing. That is rather amazing, IMO It's a big Universe we reside in.
WaPo (paywall) has one of their cool interactive annotations of these first pictures. Worth a look if you have access. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/interactive/2022/nasa-webb-space-telescope-images-explained/
sorta makes the wonder of life as we know it, special. and yet, we humans seem hell bent on destroying it.
I don’t know how you can watch that and feel “special” in any conceivable way. We aren’t special. We are just isolated.
I have had a relatively good life. I have good children. I have seen many wonderous things. I have enjoyed being a human being, the result of a few million years of evolution. I have lived in a time where many of life's mysteries are being revealed everyday. I feel special that I have the opportunity to see a small part of the universe almost as old as the birth of the universe as estimated. I also believe humans will possibly destroy the earth and most of the life on it.
Even if it were pointed at the moon, Webb is way too far away see anything. But NASA has a satellite in orbit that is close enough, and has taken pictures of the landing sites
BAM! In the first month, the JWST found the oldest galaxy yet dating to 300MM years. The spectrography should be enlightening (endarkening?)!
