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Old 11-August-2004, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by um3k
Actually, I think the field of view is pretty darn wide. This thing uses an array of a rediculous number of CCDs.
Specs. Looks as if the swath width is 1.2 km for blue-green (compared with 2.9 km for Mars Global Surveyor) and 6 km for red, but with the same resolution - close to five times better than MGS - in either case. That's pretty impressive!
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