The high-tech German-built infrared telescope and its associated lower flexible telescope cavity door are rotated upward to their maximum 58-degree vertical position in this close-up photo taken during the last flight in the SOFIA observatory's flight envelope-expansion test series.
NASA/Carla Thomas
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