3-D Mastcam Back in the Picture for Mars Rover

摘要

NASA is paying $7 million to add a high-definition 3-D camera to the already overbudget Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission at the urging of blockbuster filmmaker James Cameron.rnIn February, the U.S. space agency modified an existing $18 million contract with Malin Space Science Systems to restart work on a zoom-lens 3-D Mast Camera, or Mastcam, that NASA asked the San Diego-based company to set aside in 2007 in favor a Mastcam consisting of a pair of fixed-focal length 2-D cameras.