PHOTOS OF THE DAY... On June 15, Japan Standard Time, a small free-floating camera was jettisoned from IKAROS into space to photograph the solar sail in its entirety. The camera, known as DCAM2, had a battery life of only 15 minutes...but that was enough time for it to drift off to the point where the spacecraft was just a little speck in the images. You can read more about this here (You can use Google toolbar to translate the page, which is in Japanese).
It’s too bad JAXA didn’t post high resolution versions of these images... I had to use Adobe Photoshop to enlarge one of the pics into an 8 x 10 photo that I plan to frame on my wall. That pic is posted at the top of this entry.
All images courtesy of JAXA
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