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  Animation courtesy of Reto Stockli, NASA Earth Observatory

Shortly after achieving orbit, Aqua deployed its solar array, x-band antenna, and instruments. This time-accelerated sequence shows the following deployments: solar array, AMSR-E antenna, CERES aft, CERES fore, X-Band antenna, MODIS Earth shield, and AIRS Earth shield.

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