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WFPC
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WFPCWide-Field Planetary Camera (Hubble Space Telescope)
WFPCWorld Family Policy Center (Brigham Young University; Provo, UT)
WFPCWisconsin Forest Productivity Council
WFPCWing Fire Protection Controller


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The space telescope's first look at an astronomical object will come via the wide-field planetary camera, one of five scientific instruments onboard.
In addition, Villard says, the extra time may let scientists improve their ability to use two of the telescope's five instruments at the same time, such as its Wide-Field Planetary Camera and its Faint-Object Spectrograph.
That idea was borrowed from the Hubble Space Telescope's wide-field planetary camera, two of whose mentors are co-investigators on Malin's Mars Observer team.
 
 
 
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