The James Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Waterfall (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

The James Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Waterfall

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This shiny silver "waterfall" is actually the five layers of the full-scale engineering model of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope sunshield being laid out by technicians at the Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems Space Park facility in Redondo Beach, Calif. who are conducting endurance tests on them. For more information, visit: jwst.nasa.gov .

HIGH RES IMAGES: http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/the-james-webb-space-telescope-sunshield-waterfall/#.Uq9uzeKFdnk.

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Credit: Northrop Grumman / NASA

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