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The LSST camera

The LSST camera is the largest digital camera ever constructed. The image surface is flat with a diameter of approximately 25.2 in (64 cm). The detector format employs a mosaic of 189 16-megapixel silicon detectors arranged on 21 “rafts” to … Continue reading

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Finding Degas’s Lost Portrait With a Particle Accelerator

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Billion-Pixel View From Curiosity at Rock Nest

NASA Photojournal 900 image composite taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover. Full Res JPEG

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Colourful Notions

“This BBC video above “Colorful Notions” from 1985 first summarizes the classical theory of color vision and follows with the ideas of Edwin Land who personally explains and demonstrates his experiments. It can be viewed as an introduction to this … Continue reading

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Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary

More info  http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/1871… Muti-Spectral Camera  http://www.mega-vision.com/cultural_heri…

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