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Date: 19 September 2007 Satellite: Herschel Depicts: Cross-section of the HIFI focal plane unit Copyright: SRON/Peter Prijs Show in archive: true
Inside the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (HIFI) the signal from the telescope (red) is mixed with the signal generated by the onboard local oscillator (yellow).