Maxim Markevitch, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Maxim Markevitch, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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Principal Investigator Maxim Markevitch is using R&D funding to pursue the feasibility of fashioning a low-cost X-ray mirror from plastic tape and tightly rolling it like the sticky adhesive ubiquitous in most homes and offices. The whiteboard drawing shows the shape of the X-ray mirror roll.

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Credit: NASA/D. McCallum

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