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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Is Back In Business

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-mars-has-no-elections-right-now dept.

Matt_dk writes "Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), at a particularly intriguing target, a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147. The image demonstrated that the camera is working exactly as it was before going offline, thereby scoring a 'perfect 10 both for performance and beauty.' (Meanwhile, the slowly declining Mars Phoenix Lander has now entered safe mode, according to reader CraftyJack.)

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  1. Re:Lander, not Rover by RockMFR · · Score: 4, Funny

    Clearly we need to be giving more original names to these things. What will happen when humans colonize the planet?

    Mr Mars: "So, where do you live?"
    Mr Mars: "I live on Mars Street in Mars City."
    Mr Mars: "Oh really? So do I! Where do you work?"
    Mr Mars: "Mars Corporation."
    Mr Mars: "No way!"
    Mars Dog: "woof woof"

  2. The Rover is just "collecting science" by svnt · · Score: 3, Funny

    I knew those NASA guys were sandbagging.

    Claiming to be carrying out "experiments" with "hypotheses," ha!

  3. Re:Lander, not Rover by EagleRock · · Score: 5, Funny

    To be fair, we did name these things. The Lander is called the Phoenix, and the two current Mars Rovers are Spirit and Opportunity. Of course, if we keep this up, Mars will begin to sound like a highly patriotic US-version of Harry Potter. :-)

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  4. Re:Lander, not Rover by Jesus_666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    As seen in the next Harry Potter books Harry Potter and the Stars, Stripes and Galaxies and Harry Potter and the Martian Real Estate Bubble.

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  5. ...Mars Rover has now entered safe mode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, I didn't know it had a F8 key.

  6. Now that we're in safe mode... by roachdabug · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess now we can only get images in 640x480 with 256 colors...

  7. Safe mode... by BUL2294 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, at least they chose "Safe Mode with Networking" and now will be able to look at NTBTLOG.TXT from a distance. Of course, given that it takes up to 40 minutes for round-trip communications to happen, they had to change the default setting from 30 seconds to 2400+ seconds, otherwise the lander's would have died before loading the power monitoring service--resulting in an infinite loop.

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