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Cold fog billowing from a gold Dewar (62K JPEG)

Preparing the vibration test Dewar, in which we made sure that the helium insert could survive launch. Shown here are GSFC cryo and mechanical engineers (left to right) Sandra Irish, Rob Boyle, and Carmel Conaty.



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