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XMM mirror module back view

XMM mirror module

View of the back side of an XMM mirror module. This is the side from which the photons continue to the detectors in the foci of the mirror shells (or onto the Reflection Grating Arrays; see below).

Photo courtesy of D. de Chambure, XMM Project (ESTEC)

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