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Columbus external experiments installed during spacewalk
 
15 February 2008

SOLAR and EuTEF are circled
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SOLAR and EuTEF are circled

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SOLAR External Payload Facility in March 2007
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SOLAR External Payload Facility has three complementary instruments: SOVIM (SOlar Variable and Irradiance Monitor) covers the near-ultraviolet, visible and thermal regions of the spectrum, SOL-ACES (SOLar Auto-Calibrating Extreme UV/UV Spectrophotometers) measures the extreme ultraviolet, and SOLSPEC (SOLar SPECtral Irradiance measurements) covers the 180–3000 nm large wavelength range.

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External Facilities: European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTE
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External Facilities: European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF).

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