None of us are perfect, and sometimes the Hubble Space Telescope just flat-out points to the wrong spot in the sky. This has been happening more than ever in the last couple years.
They include: Ganymede, which is bigger than the planet Mercury and has a mysterious magnetic field; Io, which is the most volcanically active place in the solar system; Europa, which has more liquid water than Earth; and Callisto, which is kind of a simple ol' cratered moon.
I just tried to observed Ganymede with the Hubble Space Telescope and the data look like empty sky. Did someone kill Ganymede before I could get to it? I am going to be very angry. I guess it also could be an HST pointing failure. But, given 2020, I expect it was destruction.He immediately thought to himself,"What did I screw up this time?" which is, as he puts it,"Pretty much what you always do as a scientist, when you see something that didn't work.
The Hubble Space Telescope floats in space after its release from the space shuttle's robotic arm following a servicing mission in March 2002.The Hubble Space Telescope floats in space after its release from the space shuttle's robotic arm following a servicing mission in March 2002., head of the Hubble mission office at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore — and no relation to Mike Brown — says that Hubble does indeed just sometimes aim in the wrong direction.
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