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The German framing camera on NASA’s Dawn mission
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The German contribution to NASA's Dawn discovery mission consists of two identically built 'framing cameras' that will take high-resolution colour pictures of the asteroids Vesta and Ceres from orbit around them.
The picture shows one of the two cameras prior to its installation on the spacecraft. The lower, brass-coloured unit contains the electronics; above it is the camera head together with the sensor (1024 × 1024 light-sensitive semiconductor elements) and the filter wheel. The blue metallic tube contains the camera's optics, and at the very top there is a protection device to guard against the entry of stray light.
The cameras were built under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung; MPS) in cooperation with DLR's Institute of Planetary Research (Institut für Planetenforschung) and the Technical University of Braunschweig's Institute of Computer and Network Engineering.
Credit: MPS.
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