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Contact: Donna McKinney
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Naval Research Laboratory
Caption: Herschel will orbit around the second Lagrange point, L2, with a relatively constant environment, and where it can be well shielded from emission from the Earth and Sun, and can hover without using too much fuel.
Credit: European Space Agency
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