3 billion-pixel digital camera! - - - - Is thet more than a brazillion?

[Ptah]

3 billion-pixel digital camera - - 30,000 gigabytes of data - -every night

http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/163468

Net-search giant to manage data for UA-designed sky sweeper
By Eric Swedlund
arizona daily star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 01.06.2007


A UA-designed breakthrough telescope project that promises to scan
the entire visible sky every three nights has snared Google to
manage the volumes of data its 3 billion-pixel digital camera will generate.

The Internet search giant announced Friday it has joined the
Tucson-based Large Synoptic Survey Telescope consortium, with plans to
organize the overwhelming 30,000 gigabytes of data the scope is expected
to produce every night.

The data will be analyzed constantly, with all information available to the public.

"The expertise they bring to the project is handling these huge amounts of data,"
said Suzanne Jacoby, LSST project coordinator.




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http://www.lsst.org/lsst_home.shtml

"The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a proposed ground-based 8.4-meter,
10 square-degree-field telescope that will provide digital imaging of faint astronomical
objects across the entire sky, night after night. In a relentless campaign of 15 second exposures,
LSST will cover the available sky every three nights, opening a movie-like window on objects
that change or move on rapid timescales: exploding supernovae, potentially hazardous near-Earth
asteroids, and distant Kuiper Belt Objects."



(Image credit: LSST Corporation)

[Deja Q]

1. Drat. I was hoping she'd be holding up two of those...

:rofl:

[Ptah]

3. Unfortunately, I don't think there are two of those

Well maybe that Braskey guy.

:shrug:

[wildhorses]

2. awesome

:wow:

[Ptah]

4. I am always amazed at what humans can build.

I work in the same building as some of the engineers and scientists
that are working on this project.

I LOVE my job!

:thumbsup: