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Instrument Design
 The
SCS configuration is a pair of CCD camera's and filter wheels. Each camera
contains the following components:
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Filter wheel assembly (12 filters, stepper motor, gear, housing and dust
wiper blade) - built by MSSL
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Camera objective lens and camera head (mechanical interface plate,
CCD & associated electronics) - provided by Space-X,
Switzerland. Camera optics built by Fisba Optik AG, Switzerland and electronics by 3DPlus, France
Additionally, DEM generation from stereo image pairs is performed by Joanneum
Research, Austria and FM camera calibration was performed at SIRA
Electro Optics of Chislehurst, Kent. Software modelling of the lander,
robot arm and PAW motion relative to the DEM is performed by the Department
of Computer Science of the University of Aberystwyth. |