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Mir station with damaged solar panel. 10/1997

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-mir07-30006

Image Size 300 DPI: 48 * 48 cm

Russia's Mir Space Station backdropped against a cloud-covered Earth photographed during a fly-around by the Space Shuttle Atlantis following the conclusion of joint docking activities between the Mir-24 and STS-86 crews. One of the solar array panels on the Spektr Module shows damage incurred during the impact of a Russian unmanned Progress re-supply ship with collided with the space station on June 25, 1997.

Keywords for this photo:

1997 - ATMOSPHERE - CLOUD - CORE MODULE - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - HORIZON - KRISTALL - KVANT - KVANT 2 - LIMB - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - MIR - MIR-24 - MODULE - OCEAN - POSTER - PRIRODA - PROGRESS - RUSSIA - SOLAR PANEL - SPACE - SPACE STATION - SPEKTR - STS-86 - UNDOCKING -