Mars’s top camera suffers failing eyesight

Detectors may all grow old before their time.

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.

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Mars’s top camera suffers failing eyesight

Detectors may all grow old before their time.

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.

Read the story here.

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