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Relationship to Beagle 2 Lander

The stereo camera system is mounted on the PAW, an instrument cluster on the end of the Beagle 2 lander robot arm. The stereo cameras are mounted 200 mm apart with a toe-in angle (or crossed eye angle) of 4.65°. This gives a 100% image overlap at a distance of 1.2 m. The cameras are labelled left and right after their respective halves of each stereo pair (think of the PAW as a 'face' with the stereo cameras as 'eyes' and the Mossbauer spectrometer as a 'nose').
  In addition to the stereo cameras the other PAW instruments are 1) the Microscope, 2) the Mole (obscured here by the PAW electronics board), 3) the Corer-Grinder, 4) the Mossbauer spectrometer and 5) the X-ray spectrometer.

  20th August 2002