Timeline for How does Voyager take pictures in space?
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| Oct 15, 2017 at 5:19 | comment | added | FKEinternet | @uwe vidicon is another name for a video camera tube. As you noted, they don't give many more details, such as its size or resolution, which would have been nice to know. | |
| Oct 14, 2017 at 14:10 | comment | added | Uwe | There is very few information about the image sensor in voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft/instruments/iss , just the word vidicon, but not more. | |
| Oct 14, 2017 at 9:07 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/919127403900932096 | ||
| Oct 13, 2017 at 20:06 | comment | added | Uwe | Video cameras existed long before modern CCD or CMOS image sensors. Analog to digital converters existed also in the 70s. | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 16:46 | answer | added | Russell Borogove | timeline score: 10 | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 16:02 | comment | added | Hobbes | You're looking at the wrong site. NSSDC focuses on science results, not instrument descriptions. The info you're looking for is here: voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft/instruments/iss | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 15:49 | history | edited | Nathan Tuggy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Link inlining; fixed spelling/grammar; made tags more accurate
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| Oct 13, 2017 at 15:44 | comment | added | user10509 | Simply Google 'Voyager 1 cameras' and you get e.g. this: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/25005/… | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 15:22 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 13, 2017 at 15:20 | history | asked | Ricky Zhang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |