Leibson's Law: It takes 10 years for any disruptive technology to become pervasive in the design community. This blog is about the disruptive technologies that either have or will win over electronic engineers, some that won't, and why. Please feel free to link to these blog entries! Written by Steve Leibson, a marketing consultant specializing in lead generation and content creation for high-tech companies, former VP of Content for Reed Business, and former Editor in Chief of EDN. See my consulting Web site at www.sleibson.com and my history site at www.hp9825.com. You can email me at steven.leibson followed by the magic email symbol @ followed by att.net.
Nov 1 2008 8:11AM | Permalink |Comments (0) |
NASA stated a week ago that it had revived the Hubble Space Telescope's B-Side Data Formatter that translates instrument speak into spacecraft uplink/downlink speak and that it had also awakened the slumbering Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). Just in time for Halloween, NASA released this photo of Arp 147:

This picture shows “a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies” in NASA speak. It appears that the galaxy in the center of the image has passed straight through the galaxy on the right, blowing a perfect hole through the rightmost galaxy’s center. Hubble has photographed this galaxy before so NASA used this shot to grade WFPC2’s operational status after all the hullabaloo over lost the data formatter and the two instrument restarts. In NASA speak: “The image demonstrated that the camera is working exactly as it was before going offline...” (See Wikipedia's definition of "first light.")
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