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entanglement Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-30-07 06:12 PM
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Hubble telescope dying: loses 'Advanced Camera for Surverys' to short circuit
"The Hubble Space Telescope is flying partly blind across the heavens, the result of a short circuit on Saturday in its most popular instrument, the Advanced Camera for Surveys.

NASA engineers reported Monday that most of the camera's capabilities, including the ability to take the sort of deep cosmic postcards that have inspired the public and to track the mysterious dark energy splitting the universe to the ends of time, had probably been lost for good...."

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/30/news/hubble.php

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