NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Is Back In Business

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 30, 2008 @06:05AM 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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Re:Lander, not Rover by EagleRock · 2008-10-30 06:28 · 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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Now that we're in safe mode... by roachdabug · 2008-10-30 07:15 · Score: 5, Funny

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