{"id":14324,"date":"2010-04-09T08:10:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T08:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/san-diego-team-delivers-camera-for-next-mars-rover\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T08:10:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T08:10:14","slug":"san-diego-team-delivers-camera-for-next-mars-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/san-diego-team-delivers-camera-for-next-mars-rover.php","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Team Delivers Camera for Next Mars Rover"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Mastcam instrument for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will use a side-by side pair of cameras for examining terrain around the mission's rover. Right is a sample image<\/a> from Mastcam 34 of Mastcam Principal Investigator Michael Malin.
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Malin Space Science Systems Inc., San Diego<\/span>, has delivered the two cameras for the Mast Camera instrument that will be the science-imaging workhorse of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory <\/span>rover, to be launched next year. The instrument, called Mastcam, has been tested and is ready for installation onto the rover, named Curiosity, which is being built at <\/a>NASA<\/a>'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/span>, Pasadena, Calif.

The two component cameras have different fixed focal lengths: 34 millimeters and 100 millimeters (telephoto) and can provide high-definition color video. NASA <\/span>is also providing funds for Malin to build an alternative version with zoom lenses on both cameras, in collaboration with movie producer James Cameron, a member of the Mastcam team. If the zoom pair can be completed in time for rover assembly and testing, the fixed-focal-length pair could be swapped out for them. Malin has also delivered the Mars Hand Lens Imager and the Mars Descent Imager for the Mars Science Laboratory<\/span>.<\/p>

For more information, see Malin Space Science Systems<\/span> news release: http:\/\/www.msss.com\/press_releases\/mast_delivery\/<\/a>.
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