Seeing red: a cool revival of Hubble's infrared camera. (Science News This Week).(Brief Article) From: Science News | Date: June 8, 2002| Author: Cowen, R. | COPYRIGHT 2002 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

After 3 years of blindness, the Hubble Space Telescope's near-infrared vision has been restored. Prematurely running out of its nitrogen-ice coolant in 1999, Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) was brought back to life in March when astronauts installed a neon-gas refrigerator (SN: 3/16/02, p. 163).

Cooled to a temperature that gives the detector 10 to 30 times greater sensitivity than before, NICMOS is once again peering through dust-shr...