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Title: Eye of Gaia: billion-pixel camera to map Milky Way
Post by: Whitters on Jul 11, 2011, 11:53:42

The largest digital camera ever built for a space mission has been painstakingly mosaicked together from 106 separate electronic detectors. The resulting "billion-pixel array" will serve as the super-sensitive 'eye' of ESA's Galaxy-mapping Gaia mission.

More: http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMQ9V6TLPG_index_0.html (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMQ9V6TLPG_index_0.html)

(Edit: Added first paragraph and fixed link -- Rick)

Title: Re: Eye of Gaia: billion-pixel camera to map Milky Way
Post by: MarkS on Jul 11, 2011, 16:51:41

Total detector size is 1 metre by half a metre :o :o :o

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Astronomy => In the Media... => Topic started by: Whitters on Jul 11, 2011, 11:53:42