Japan's Solar Sail Photographed in Orbit

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If seeing is believing, this picture comes as sweet relief to a satellite operations team in Japan that has been overseeing the flight of an experimental solar sailing spacecraft. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA, captured the image after the IKAROS spacecraft deployed a small camera last week. The picture was released on JAXA's website Thursday.

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