Hubble Repair Gives Chance To Reset CCD Temperature

Last month's shutdown of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope gives instrument managers a chance to reset the operating temperature on the camera's charge-coupled devices (CCDs), something they'd wanted to do for some time to reduce noise in the signal caused by "hot...

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