The detectors inside the VISTA camera

The array of sixteen infrared-sensitive chips that form the heart of the VISTA camera. Here shown undergoing laboratory tests.

Credit:

VISTA/ESO

About the Image

Id:vista-imgp4190
Type:Photographic
Release date:10 December 2009, 23:35
Size:2756 x 2236 px

About the Object

Name:Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Instrument
Category:Survey Telescopes

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