The instrument will obtain
stereo images of the surface in colour at a resolution of better than 5 m.
Not exact matches
* Correction (7/21/08): The
image of Phoenix's
Surface Stereo Imager has been added since publication.
When it lifts off on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, it will be carrying a German
stereo camera capable
of taking 3 - D
images of most
of the
surface of Mars.
«The
images have confirmed the sensitivity
of the instrument and are sharp,» says Antoine Pommerol, co-investigator
of the Colour and
Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS)
of the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University
of Bern.
The first 3 - D
images of Pluto's
surface have also now been released; the
images now make global
stereo mapping
of Pluto's
surface possible, and require red / blue
stereo glasses to view.
3 - D
stereo image of Pluto's
surface.
The Mars Camera, officially known as CaSSIS (Colour and
Stereo Surface Imaging System), aboard the European Space Agency «s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) captured its first high resolution
images of...