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Curiosity on tilt table
On a tilt table in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's JPL, we can see the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on the rover with two rectangular "eyes" near the top.
With one smaller opening for the telephoto eye (focal length of 100mm) and a larger one for the wider-angle lens that has a focal length of 34 millimeters, the two cameras can provide color images, high-definition video, and a combination for stereo views.
Original plans for Curiosity to carry a high-resolution 3D camera that "Avatar" director James Cameron was helping to build had to be scrapped when NASA apparently ran out of time to test the camera properly.
April 6, 2011 4:00 AM PDT
Photo by: NASA/JPL
| Caption by: James Martin
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