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Date: 09 December 1999 Satellite: XMM Depicts: XMM as seen by FUGA, 5 hours after launch Copyright: ESA Show in archive: true
Picture taken by XMM's FUGA camera showing the telescope tube and one solar array on the left. At the top of the picture, one sees the edges of
the now deployed telescope sunshield. What appears as a white boom in centre is in fact one of the fixed lateral sunshield panels, seen
side-on.