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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: NASA Scrambles to Find Root of Hubble Glitches


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A pair of unrelated anomalies brought remote repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope, seen above, to a screeching halt on October 17, 2008.

NASA engineers had been trying to revive the telescope after a data formatter, which sends science information to Earth, failed in September.

Photograph courtesy NASA/ESA