A Gigapixel Camera Goes Asteroid-Hunting

Patricia Daukantas

On a mountaintop in Hawaii, a modestly sized telescope with the world's biggest digital camera has begun its key science mission: hunting for killer asteroids.

 

Scatterings imageFocal plane of the Pan-STARRS gigapixel camera showing the 60 orthogonal transfer arrays.

On a mountaintop in Hawaii, a modestly sized telescope with the world's biggest digital camera has begun its key science mission: hunting for killer asteroids.

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