04 Jul 2009 19:35 UTC
Latitude
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Longitude
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Altitude
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| 27.6 |
-155.7 |
558.1 |
- Hubble whirls around Earth at 5 miles per second. If a car could travel that fast, a road trip from Los Angeles to New York City would take only 10 minutes.
- Hubble completes one full orbit every 97 minutes.
- Hubble is nearly the size of a large school bus, but it can fit inside the cargo bay of a space shuttle.
- In an average orbit, Hubble uses about the same amount of energy as 28 100-watt light bulbs.
- Hubble travels more than 150 million miles (241 million km) per year.
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