NavCam
Sign in to saveAlso known as navigational camera, navigation camera
thumb|220px|''Curiosity's'' self-portrait shows the deck of the rover as viewed from the NavCams. Navcam, short for navigational camera, is a type of camera found on certain robotic rovers or spacecraft used for navigation without interfering with scientific instruments. Navcams typically take wide angle photographs that are used to plan the next moves of the vehicle or object tracking.
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Vinony's link graph records 95 inbound references to NavCam, and connects out to European Space Agency, Curiosity and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
It sits within the topics Mars Exploration Rover mission, Mars imagers and Mars Pathfinder.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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thumb|220px|''Curiosity's self-portrait shows the deck of the rover as viewed from the NavCams. Navcam, short for navigational camera, is a type of camera found on certain robotic rovers or spacecraft used for navigation without interfering with scientific instruments. Navcams typically take wide angle photographs that are used to plan the next moves of the vehicle or object tracking.
==Overview== The Mars Curiosity rover has two pairs of black and white navigation cameras mounted on the mast to support ground navigation. The cameras have a 45 degree angle of view and use visible light to capture stereoscopic 3-D imagery. These cameras, like those on the Mars Pathfinder missions support use of the ICER image compression format.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NavCam” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.