Sunday, May 17, 2009

Wide Field Camera-3 Installed on HST



The Wide Field Camera-3 was installed on the Hubble Space Telescope Thursday completing the highest science priority for the Atlantis STS-125 mission to the highly acclaimed space observatory. To better understand the WFC-3 watch videos 1, 2 and 3. In today's spacewalk (Friday), astronauts Mike Massimino and Michael Good will replace batteries and gyroscopes, according to The Washington Post. The image above was taken by WFC-2 and with WFC-3 soon to have ten times or more the capability as the replaced model [video]. The Hubble Space Telescope has taught humanity much more about time and space [video]. Stay current with the additional spacewalks on NASA-TV.

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