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DescriptionJames Webb Space Telescope Mirror38.jpg	English: Six of the 18 Webb telescope mirrors are readied for shipment. All of the 18 mirror segments will be cryogenically tested twice in the Marshall Center's X-ray & Cryogenic Facility -- once with bare polished beryllium and then again after a thin coating of gold is applied to gain optimal reflectance in the infrared. More information: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/releases/2010/10-094.html
Date	Taken on 13 July 2010, 15:12 (according to Exif data)
Source	http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/images_mirror46.html
Author	NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham/Emmett Given

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