CCD imagers heated to 117 C typically do not perform very well, if at all. Active cooling of their imager is required.

Their mission science must include active data as to internal circuitry temps and methods of actively cooling. So, where is this mission critical data and their camera design/engineering specs?

Modern cameras can easily outperform conventional film dynamic range by at least 5 db (not to mention their much wider color spectrum sensitivity which can include IR and UV), or an equivalent of 32 f-stops, and a truly scientific CCD imager should easily obtain a 6 DB or 64 f-stop advantage over Kodak film (especially of individually recorded images at maximum resolution using a CCD imager populated with at least 16.777 million pixels or photon buckets, as opposed to a video camera of only HDTV quality that’s not any better than a GoPro delivers).

Why are their cameras malfunctioning, or are they simply broken?

Why are their gamma spectrometry instruments still not working?

What sort of lens optics and narrow bandpass filters do each of their cameras have to work with?

Why are those local X-ray and gamma radiation readings not being recorded?



On Saturday, December 14, 2013 3:53:26 PM UTC-8, Fevric J. Glandules wrote:
Nice to see something moving on the lunar surface again.



Looking forward to the selfies.