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1 LIVE INTERACTIVE LEARNING @ YOUR DESKTOP January 28, 2010 NASA/NSTA Web Seminar Series How Telescopes Have Changed Our View of the Universe Hubble’s Universe: New Discoveries from a New and Improved HST Web Seminar IV: Hubble’s Universe: New Discoveries from a New and Improved HST Presenter: Dr. Frank Summers

2 Hubble: Back in Business and Better Than Ever Dr. Frank Summers Space Telescope Science Institute December 3, 2009

3 A Space Telescope

4 Place clip art under the one you believe to be the photo

5 Artist’s Conception WRONG Photograph CORRECT

6 Size of Earth Size of Earth’s Atmosphere 6400 km 600 km above surface Size of Hubble’s Orbit 100 km above surface

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8 Poll Question What object is closest to Hubble in size? A)Small Car B)Full Size Car C)Limo D)School Bus

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10 Hubble Servicing Missions

11 Launch – December 1990 WFPC, GHRS, HSP, FOC, FOS FGS can also do science

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14 Servicing Mission 1 – December 1993 COSTAR, WFPC2 solar arrays, gyros

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19 Servicing Mission 2 – February 1997 NICMOS, STIS fine guidance sensor, solid state recorder, reaction wheel assembly

20 Servicing Mission 3A – December 1999 gyroscope failure in November computer, data recorder, fine guidance sensor, electronics improvement, thermal protection

21 Servicing Mission 3B – March 2002 ACS solar arrays, NICMOS cooling system, reaction wheel assembly, power control unit

22 Servicing Mission 4 – May 2009 WFC3, COS ACS repair, STIS repair, SIC&DH, gyros, batteries, fine guidance sensor, thermal blankets, de-orbit module

23 Let’s Pause for Two Questions from the Audience

24 Servicing Mission 4

25 2002 – Servicing Mission 3B 2003 – Columbia accident 2004 – No shuttle mission? 2005 – Two gyro mode 2006 – “One final house call” A Long Awaited Mission

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29 Can you find the shuttle? Use clip art and place it on the shuttle!

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39 Wide Field Camera 3 –WFC3…

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42 Cosmic Origins Spectrograph

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44 ACS & STIS Repair

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48 SIC & DH Science Instrument Command & Data Handling Unit

49 Batteries, Gyros, NOBLs, SCM

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55 Let’s Pause for Two Questions from the Audience

56 The Summer of SMOV

57 Servicing Mission Observatory Verification Diagnostic check-out New instrument start-up Repaired instrument recovery Precise calibration

58 ACS artifacts in “blank” images (0 sec): 2002 2009 (Thanks to Max Mutchler)

59 ACS artifacts in “blank” images (1000 sec): 2002 2009 (Thanks to Max Mutchler)

60 Amplifier Crosstalk amp A chip gap amp D

61 NGC 6217 mosaic

62 NGC 6217 cleaned

63 NGC 6217 biased

64 NGC 6217 4 color

65 SMOV Highlights Nearly everything is working great Thermal situation very good Could not recover ACS HRC NICMOS cooling is back! Jupiter interruption

66 Let’s Pause for Two Questions from the Audience

67 Interplanetary Smackdown: Round 2

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70 Jupiter – July 1994 Visible LightUltraviolet Light

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74 Butterfly Effect

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88 Extremes of Omega Cen

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105 Five Gals Named Stephan

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112 WFC3 – Imaging the Universe

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114 The Best Hubble Ever

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117 Thank you to the sponsor of tonight's Web Seminar:

118 http://learningcenter.nsta.org

119 http://www.elluminate.com

120 National Science Teachers Association Dr. Francis Q. Eberle, Executive Director Zipporah Miller, Associate Executive Director Conferences and Programs Al Byers, Assistant Executive Director e-Learning LIVE INTERACTIVE LEARNING @ YOUR DESKTOP NSTA Web Seminars Paul Tingler, Director Jeff Layman, Technical Coordinator


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