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NASA Revives Main Hubble Telescope Camera

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-can-see-you-again dept.

antikarma writes "NASA engineers successfully activated the Advanced Camera for Surveys at 9:12 a.m. EDT Friday aboard the agency's Hubble Space Telescope. Checkout was completed at 10:20 a.m. EDT with science observations scheduled to resume Sunday, July 2. 'This is the best possible news,' said Ed Ruitberg, deputy associate director for the Astrophysics Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 'We were confident we could work through the camera issue, and now we can get back to doing more incredible science with the camera.'"

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  1. They really had to do this by roman_mir · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because all they could see without that telescope camera was this:

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

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  2. Re:To Science by cheese_wallet · · Score: 3, Funny

    and europeans think americans are arrogant!

  3. Re:To Science by mordors9 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gee, so we are complicated ;-) There are still people that think the English are evil because of their conquest of the globe. Anyway, back to the article. I would encourage everyone to check out this month's issue of Scientific American. It has some outstanding photos from Hubble.

  4. MST3k by monkaduck · · Score: 3, Funny

    So Mike didn't break the Hubble after all!

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  5. 'This is the best possible news,' ...NOT by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Today at 10:20 the Hubble main telescope found a planet of supermodels who want to give us a clean power source and worship us like gods."
    That's the best possible news.

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