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Those astronauts want us to believe they're excited about repairing Hubble, but I think this image yields us a glimpse of their hidden agenda.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/hst_sm4/index....
Pipe wrench, a hammer, and some duct tape should do it.
Apples, in your picture size, you can reduce the image "by 800 subtrated from original size, in relation too, height and width. This allows image to stay within the borders of the posting section.
Apples, in your picture size, you can reduce the image "by 800 subtrated from original size, in relation too, height and width. This allows image to stay within the borders of the posting section.
I don't get it?
they're bumpin' gloves in outer space and having a totally sweet meal of cheeseburger and fries, rather than fixing some boourns telesuckerscope. well, that's what i got from that image anyways. maybe i'm a touch too imaginative?
No, if you look at the fold patterns in the gloves, you get an image of the Virgin Mary holding the Baby Jesus. But, not as it might look in real life, but as the Virgin Mary and the Baby Jesus might appear on a grilled cheese sandwich.
Or, maybe it's just me.
Those astronauts want us to believe they're excited about repairing Hubble, but I think this image yields us a glimpse of their hidden agenda.
Very well hidden. What the hell is that?
On this web browser I don't get any of the buttons, I get a blank box.
"IN html" then specify width and height. Look at properties of the original picture size and then reduce.
There using the fist(glove) to "bump the object," into position. 
Actually their giving each other a "high five" by bumping each others gloves. John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel celebrating the successful installation of the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and repair of the Advanced Camera for Surveys.
There using the fist(glove) to "bump the object," into position.
WHO CALLED IT?! Less the space snack...
But what's the "hidden agenda"?
(edited out)
And I'll go to my grave without ever knowing what "500 Apples" was referring to with that cryptic sentence in the opening post. (Maybe better...)
Veteran astronaut Scott D. Altman commanded the final space shuttle mission to Hubble. Retired Navy Capt. Gregory C. Johnson served as pilot. Mission specialists included veteran spacewalkers John M. Grunsfeld and Michael J. Massimino and first-time space fliers Andrew J. Feustel, Michael T. Good and K. Megan McArthur.Atlantis’ astronauts repaired and upgraded the Hubble Space Telescope, conducting five spacewalks during their mission to extend the life of the orbiting observatory. They successfully installed two new instruments and repaired two others, bringing them back to life, replaced gyroscopes and batteries, and added new thermal insulation panels to protect the orbiting observatory. The result is six working, complementary science instruments with capabilities beyond what was available and an extended operational lifespan until at least 2014.
With the newly installed Wide Field Camera, Hubble will be able to observe in ultraviolet and infrared spectrums as well as visible light, peer deep onto the cosmic frontier in search of the earliest star systems and study planets in the solar system. The telescope’s new Cosmic Origins Spectrograph will allow it to study the grand-scale structure of the universe, including the star-driven chemical evolution that produce carbon and the other elements necessary for life.
Now, the results from doing service to hubble.
The image at top left shows NGC 6302, a butterfly-shaped nebula surrounding a dying star. At top right is a picture of a clash among members of a galactic grouping called Stephan's Quintet. The image at bottom left gives viewers a panoramic portrait of a colorful assortment of 100,000 stars residing in the crowded core of Omega Centauri, a giant globular cluster. At bottom right, an eerie pillar of star birth in the Carina Nebula rises from a sea of greenish-colored clouds.
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September 9, 2009:NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. The first snapshots from the refurbished Hubble showcase the 19-year-old telescope's new vision. Topping the list of exciting new views are colorful multi-wavelength pictures of far-flung galaxies, a densely packed star cluster, an eerie "pillar of creation," and a "butterfly" nebula. With its new imaging camera, Hubble can view galaxies, star clusters, and other objects across a wide swath of the electromagnetic spectrum, from ultraviolet to near-infrared light. A new spectrograph slices across billions of light-years to map the filamentary structure of the universe and trace the distribution of elements that are fundamental to life. The telescope's new instruments also are more sensitive to light and can observe in ways that are significantly more efficient and require less observing time than previous generations of Hubble instruments. NASA astronauts installed the new instruments during the space shuttle servicing mission in May 2009. Besides adding the instruments, the astronauts also completed a dizzying list of other chores that included performing unprecedented repairs on two other science instruments.An Early Observation Release
Martin, I actually think it was intended to be a joke about bumping gloves(a high 5), or it was a misinterpretation of the facts as to what was actually happening?:).
Cosmic Origins Spectrograph in Hubble
Credit: NASA
Instrument OverviewCOS is designed to study the large-scale structure of the universe and how galaxies, stars and planets formed and evolved. It will help determine how elements needed for life such as carbon and iron first formed and how their abundances have increased over the lifetime of the universe.
As a spectrograph, COS won’t capture the majestic visual images that Hubble is known for, but rather it will perform spectroscopy, the science of breaking up light into its individual components. Any object that absorbs or emits light can be studied with a spectrograph to determine its temperature, density, chemical composition and velocity.
A primary science objective for COS is to measure the structure and composition of the ordinary matter that is concentrated in what scientists call the ‘cosmic web’—long, narrow filaments of galaxies and intergalactic gas separated by huge voids. The cosmic web is shaped by the gravity of the mysterious, underlying cold dark matter, while ordinary matter serves as a luminous tracery of the filaments. COS will use scores of faint distant quasars as ‘cosmic flashlights,’ whose beams of light have passed through the cosmic web. Absorption of this light by material in the web will reveal the characteristic spectral fingerprints of that material. This will allow Hubble observers to deduce its composition and its specific location in space. See: Hubble Space Telescope Service Mission 4- Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
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Cosmic Origins Spectrograph optical path
: The FUV and NUV channels initially share a common path. The first optic is either a concave, holographically ruled diffraction grating which directs light to the FUV detector (red) or a concave mirror directing light to the NUV gratings and the NUV detector (purple). The green ray packets represent the FUV optical paths, and blue ray packets represent the NUV optical paths. A wavelength reference and flat field delivery system is shown at top left (orange ray packets) and can provide simultaneous wavelength reference spectra during science observations.
And I'll go to my grave without ever knowing what "500 Apples" was referring to with that cryptic sentence in the opening post. (Maybe better...)
Remember Michelle Obama and the terrorist fist pump?
