How Spirit Takes Pictures

Some Clown writes "MSNBC has a great article on the details of the camera system on the Mars Rover titled How Sprit makes great photos. Apparently the high resolution images are all done with a 1-megapixel camera. All the money is in the CCD and Lens. The hardcore digital photographers in the crowd will probably find the article to be only a teaser on the technical specs, but the rest of us in the unwashed masses should find it interesting."

Comments

Unwashed Masses...?

[funny-jack]

The hardcore digital photographers in the crowd will probably find the article to be only a teaser on the technical specs, but the rest of us in the unwashed masses should find it interesting.

What does having a six-digit Slashdot UID have to do with digital photography knowledge?

Pictures

[schnits0r]

I dunno, That would suck if all Spirit's pictures had a finger in the bottom corner of them like all mine do.

Re:Humans to the moon...

[Mod Me God]

Internet Fridges to pluto (2010)?

All those IPv6 address have to be used for somthing!

Re:I was honestly surprised.

[RigMonkey]

"Perhaps I'll dust my old 1MP camera off and see if I can do anything similar."

You're going to send your old Sony Mavica to Mars?!?!?!?!?!

Re:$400,000,000?

[morcheeba]

$400 million? Does that include the cost of getting it there?

No, it doesn't. NASA engineers saved up some frequent flyer miles accrued on the space shuttle and the space station, and got a free trip to mars. Next, they'll be saving up for a round-trip and I've heard that they are soliciting milage donations from the public.

Put another way, $400 million is about a dollar for each american. Have you gotten your dollar's worth of entertainment yet? (Or $2.30 if the price is $810 mil)

To compare, bush's little iraq war is going to cost 100-200 Billion dollars and over 500 coallition lives so far. Do you expect to get your $1400 worth of oil/entertainment from that?