DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF By Journalists Edward Kane & Marya nne Kane CAMERA CAN PHOTO GOLF BALL 15 MILES AWAY Source: Standford University & LSST The new Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera will help reveal the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. This is by far the world's biggest digital camera and the world's greatest astronomy camera to capture billions of objects in space. Here's what we know: The world's biggest digital camera can provide a highly detailed photo of an object as small as a golf ball from 15 miles away The technology is unprecedented It's a 3,250 megapixel camera, built over the past 20 years by scientists and engineers at Stanford University It weighs 6,600 pounds Number of lenses with the front lens measuring more than 5-feet Now completed and on the move to its location in the Vera C. Rubin Obs