NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The Ames digital imager is a cooled large format NikonTM1 D70 digital camera with a 70-300mm f5.6 Nikon lens. It is used hand-held behind a passenger window with exposure times 1/1000s. The camera uses a SONYTM ICX413AQ CCD detector with image format 3040 x 2014 pixels of size 7.8 microns. It measures total radiative output of the sample return capsule along its trajectory.