Engineering the world's largest digital camera

Building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope also means solving extraordinary technological challenges. In a brightly lit clean room at the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, engineers are building a car-sized digital camera for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. When it's ready, LSST will image almost all of the sky visible from its vantage point on a Chilean mountain, Cerro Pachón, every few nights for a decade to make an astronomical movie of unprecedented prop...