Comment Re:Filesize? (Score 1) 180
The comment about the "largest camera ever built" needs to be changed to the "largest staring array camera ever built." What's the diff you ask? The Quickbird satellite (www.digitalglobe.com) regularly takes pictures of the earth that are 28000 pixels X 28000 pixels = 784 Mega Pixels. The largest image that QuickBird is capable of taking is a little greater than 10 times that amount: 28000 X 280000 = 7.8 Giga pixels. QuickBird achieves this through a pushbroom sensor design in which a linear array of CCD pixels is scanned or "swept" across the Earth to form an image. Was this type of design considered for the Fermilab camera?
