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quote[0]="Hubble generates the information equivalent of a standard set of encyclopedia \--\ about 600 megabytes \--\ every day."
quote[1]="Hubble completes one full orbit every 97 minutes."
quote[2]="Hubble orbits Earth at 5 miles per second. At that speed, a trip from Los Angeles to New York city would take 10 minutes."
quote[3]="Hubble is not that far away \-\ only about 600 km (370 miles) above Earth, closer than most satellites. "
quote[4]="The northernmost point of Hubble\'\s orbit is Cape Canaveral, FL. The southernmost is Brisbane, Australia."
quote[5]="Hubble is 13.3 m (43.5 feet) long - the length of a large school bus."
quote[6]="Hubble weighs 11,110 kg (24,500 pounds) \—\ as much as two full-grown elephants."
quote[7]="Hubble\'\s new solar arrays - being installed on the 4th servicing mission - are as big as a highway billboard."
quote[8]="Hubble\'\s primary mirror is 2.4 m (7 feet 10.5 inches) across - taller than basketball player Gheorghe Muresan, who is 2.3 m, or 7 feet 7 inches."
quote[9]="Light from nearby objects, like Mars, takes only minutes to reach Hubble. Light from galaxies takes billions of years."
quote[10]="Hubble images of distant galaxies reflect what they looked like when the light left them - billions of years ago."
quote[11]="Astronomers have published over 2,600 scientific papers on Hubble results."
quote[12]="Operators send more than 100,000 instructions to Hubble each week."
quote[13]="Hubble\'\s operations center monitors 6,800 different engineering indicators on Hubble, including temperature and pointing."
quote[14]="Data collected by the telescope travels 90,000 miles over satellites and ground links before it reaches its destination in Baltimore."

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