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Solar sail - Artist view

auteur: Nasa/Novapix

référence: e-ill02-00302

Image Size 300 DPI: 25 * 17 cm

Artist's concept of a solar sail in Earth orbit. In 2011, NASA's NanoSail-D spacecraft has unfurled a gleaming sheet of space-age fabric 650 km above Earth, becoming the first-ever solar sail to circle our planet.

Keywords for this photo:

2011 - ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE - COMPOSITE - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - ILLUSTRATION - PROPULSION - SOLAR SAIL - SOLAR WIND - SPACE - SPACECRAFT -