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JPL: Science Fiction meets Science Fact in the Hills of Los Angeles

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JPL likes to share its discoveries with the public. The laboratory recently did some work expanding and updating its theater, and putting a fresh face on its museum for the open house this past May. Both have a few large items of note, to say the least. One particularly overwhelming object was the retired lens from the Hubble telescope. It looked, other than its sheer bulk, very unassuming.  Then we were directed to some small pockmarks at the front end of the housing that were made by small comets hitting the housing. I took a picture, but it just didn’t capture the magic of the object.