Advanced Camera for Surveys One of the Hubble Space Telescope's
advanced instruments is referred to as the ACS. Hubble's newest
science instrument-the Advanced Camera for Surveys - brought the
telescope into the 21st century. With its wider field of view,
sharper image quality, and enhanced sensitivity, the new camera
doubles Hubble's field of view and expands its capabilities
significantly. Upgrading the telescope with ACS's cutting-edge
technology made it ten times more effective and prolonged its
useful life. ACS is actually a team of three different cameras:
the wide field camera, the high-resolution camera, and the solar
blind camera. It outperforms all previous instruments flown
aboard the Hubble Space Telescope, primarily because of its
expanded wavelength range. Designed to study some of the
earliest activity in the universe, ACS sees in wavelengths
ranging from far ultraviolet to infrared. ACS maps the
distribution of dark matter, detects the most distant objects in
the universe, searches for massive