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“As a scientist, you live for these moments,” says Max Mutchler ’90 M.S.
Mutchler’s moment came on the evening of June 15, 2005, when the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) astronomer was working late at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. He was calibrating and reducing raw data from the telescope, which orbits the Earth 380 miles above us.
His task was to “clean up” and inspect some images taken a month earlier, as requested by space scientist Hal Weaver of the New Horizons project, NASA’s Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission. Weaver is co-leader of a large team that had been searching
for potential additional moons of the smallest planet in our solar system, Pluto.
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