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How Spirit Takes Pictures

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-not-shake-it-like-a-polaroid dept.

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."

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  1. Dang, by pvt_medic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So i wasted all my money on a nice camera. Should just get one of those from Ritz Cameras

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  2. Re:Original by hey · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Thanks very much. Some of the stuff on that *MS*NBC site didn't work in Mozilla.