An animation of the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit where the camera zooms out to show how tiny Hubble is in relation to Earth and then how small Earth is in relation to space. Companion animation is Download
The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit in its post-servicing mission 3B configuration.
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Jake Dean, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
This page was originally published on Tuesday, May 20, 2008.
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Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) was installed in Dec 1993 and used to obtain high resolution images of astronomical objects. This camera was removed in the last servicing mission so it is no longer in service.
This dataset can be found at: http://www.stsci.edu/hst/wfpc2/wfpc2_diag.html
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The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit in its post-servicing mission 3B configuration.
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