Castlesinthesky said:
Prismatic said:Actually, 100+ pixels technology has been in existence for a few years liao. Just that the pixel sensors are place on composite chips and not on one big chips. Easier to produce and replace too. The sensors on the Hubble Telescope are built this way too, think I read somewhere...
The Hubble Space Telescopes Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 has four CCDs; each contains 640,000 pixels. The light collected by each pixel is translated into a number. These numbers (all 2,560,000 of them) are sent to ground-based computers, which convert them into an image.