Engineers are finalizing work on the 3.2 billion pixel LSST (Legacy Survey of Space and Time) Camera, the world’s largest digital camera, able to view a golf ball from 15 miles away.
Roughly the size of a small car and weighing in at three tons, the camera features a five-foot wide front lens and a 3,200 megapixel sensor that will be cooled to -100 °C to reduce noise.
Although the camera isn’t fully complete, all of its mechanical components are now together for the first time in a clean room at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California.
