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Originally Posted by Hans Tucker
Hubble has served it purpose and I am sure has outlasted its projected life time to look at new ventures.
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Sure, but I think apart from the science, the outreach value of hubble is incalculable. When People think of pictures of space, they invariably have HST images in mind. Being visual spectrum images, they connect with the public in ways that false colour images of eg, cosmic background radiation doesn't really.
If they are going to let it die I hope they replace it with something even better and in the visual spectrum.
Markus