Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Ball Aerospace Systems Division
- Summary
- This is the protective aluminum case for the HiRISE camera CCD (Charge-Coupled Device). Like your own personal digital camera, a spacecraft camera records images using a CCD--an array of tiny detectors whose combined measurements of light form a picture. This CCD is identical to the one used by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera, flown at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
- The Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation and the University of Arizona donated this artifact to the Museum in 2010.
- Credit Line
- Transfer from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Inventory Number
- A20100133001
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Containers
- Materials
- Aluminum
- Dimensions
- Overall: 3.18 x 22.86 x 5.08cm, 0.6kg (1 1/4in. x 9in. x 2in., 1.4lb.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20100133001
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9ed491da0-3642-48b1-b637-6aaedfa0895c
