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Chill Out: Tiny Refrigerator Saves Hubble Camera

Chill Out: Tiny Refrigerator Saves Hubble Camera

As part of the Your Place In Space initiative, the Department of Defense (DOD) invites you to explore their space-inspired K-12 STEM resources on its agency website. We hope you find helpful materials that equip and empower your students to discover, explore, and create their place in space! 

The Hubble Space Telescope peers deep into the universe and sends breathtaking images back to Earth. But when its infrared camera, NICMOS, lost its supply of cooling liquid nitrogen the pictures stopped. Find out how Hubble was saved in this video.