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NASA Hubble Space Telescope Collection
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Hubble Shoots the Moon
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Hubble Shoots the Moon
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*Release Date*:April 16, 1999 12:00 AM (EDT)
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*Release Date*:April 16, 1999 12:00 AM (EDT)
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*News Release Number:*: STScI-1999-14a
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*News Release Number:*: STScI-1999-14a
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*Title*:Hubble Shoots the Moon
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*Title*:Hubble Shoots the Moon
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*(upper left)*: The Moon is so close to Earth that Hubble would need to take a mosaic of 130 pictures to cover the entire disk. This ground-based picture from Lick Observatory shows the area covered in Hubble's photomosaic with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.
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*(upper left)*: The Moon is so close to Earth that Hubble would need to take a mosaic of 130 pictures to cover the entire disk. This ground-based picture from Lick Observatory shows the area covered in Hubble's photomosaic with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.
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*(center)*: Hubble's crisp bird's-eye view clearly shows the ray pattern of bright dust ejected out of the crater over one billion years ago, when an asteroid larger than a mile across slammed into the Moon. Hubble can resolve features as small as 600 feet across in the terraced walls of the crater, and the hummock-like blanket of material blasted out by the meteor impact.
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*(center)*: Hubble's crisp bird's-eye view clearly shows the ray pattern of bright dust ejected out of the crater over one billion years ago, when an asteroid larger than a mile across slammed into the Moon. Hubble can resolve features as small as 600 feet across in the terraced walls of the crater, and the hummock-like blanket of material blasted out by the meteor impact.
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*(lower right)*: A close-up view of Copernicus' terraced walls. Hubble can resolve features as small as 280 feet across. Object Name: Moon Image Type: Astronomical
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*(lower right)*: A close-up view of Copernicus' terraced walls. Hubble can resolve features as small as 280 feet across. Object Name: Moon Image Type: Astronomical
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*Description*:
In a change of venue from peering at the distant universe, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken a look at Earth's closest neighbor in space, the Moon. Hubble was aimed at one of the Moon's most dramatic and photogenic targets, the 58 mile-wide (93 km) impact crater Copernicus.
The image was taken while the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) was aimed at a different part of the moon to measure the colors of sunlight reflected off the Moon. Hubble cannot look at the Sun directly and so must use reflected light to make measurements of the Sun's spectrum. Once calibrated by measuring the Sun's spectrum, the STIS can be used to study how the planets both absorb and reflect sunlight.
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*Description*:
In a change of venue from peering at the distant universe, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken a look at Earth's closest neighbor in space, the Moon. Hubble was aimed at one of the Moon's most dramatic and photogenic targets, the 58 mile-wide (93 km) impact crater Copernicus.
The image was taken while the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) was aimed at a different part of the moon to measure the colors of sunlight reflected off the Moon. Hubble cannot look at the Sun directly and so must use reflected light to make measurements of the Sun's spectrum. Once calibrated by measuring the Sun's spectrum, the STIS can be used to study how the planets both absorb and reflect sunlight.
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Wide Field Planetary Camera 2
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SPD-HUBBLE-STScI-199 9-14a
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April 16, 1999 12:00 AM (EDT)
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