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HiRISE camera suffering signal loss
Monday, February 12, 2007
news@nature.com reports: The High Resolution Imaging Science
Experiment (HiRISE) on board Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the newest
and most powerful craft to arrive at the red planet, has lost its
peripheral vision. And its colour vision is fading too.
Seven
of HiRISE's 14 detectors are sending back spurious data, the mission
team reports, and one of the four colour detectors has stopped working
completely. This has led to only a 2% loss of signal so far, which
doesn't sound too bad. But the problem looks set to hit all of the
detectors eventually.
More: news@nature.com - Mar's top camera suffers failing eyesight
