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- Title Damage to Mir solar array panel
- Released 07/03/2001 6:01 pm
- Copyright ESA
- Description
A close-up view of the solar array panel on Russia’s Mir Space Station’s Spektr Module shows damage incurred by the impact of a Russian unmanned Progress re-supply ship with collided with the space station on June 25, 1997, causing Spektr to depressurize. This picture was made with a 35mm camera during a fly-around by the Space Shuttle Atlantis following the conclusion of joint docking activities between the Mir-24 and STS-86 crews. (Image: NASA)