On Nov 10, 3:35 pm, wrote:

I can buy an HDTV camera that fits in a chewing gum package and a 200
GB memory stick to match it. If you're sending people, each person
could have multiple HDTV cameras and the memory built in to transmit
at your leisure - and power - and it would fall in the noise of the
budget, the power and the mass of other systems.

Your little and energy efficient HDTV cameras of a terrestrial
application will also need to incorporate one hell of a good and
narrow spectrum bandpass filter, so that images of our naked moon
that's so freaking damn hot by day, so terribly cold by night and
otherwise saturated in gamma, X-rays and loads of raw solar UV will
not CCD record those images as looking so unusually bluish and
otherwise violet color skewed. (imagine how terribly color skewed
those unfiltered Kodak moments should have been for our Apollo
missions that supposedly took those EVAs upon our moon)
--
Brad Guth