LCROSS Payload Manager and Chief Scientist Anthony Colaprete contacted Thermoteknix to say that:
‘the camera provided the first thermal images of the far side of the moon and also images of earth and the moon from distances as great as 560,000 and 850,000 km away, respectively. The camera has work flawlessly for nearly 100 days (and counting) in interplanetary space’
A single Thermoteknix MIRICLE TB2-30 camera (MIR1) 15 x 11 degree FOV raw image, rotated. The data is plotted on linear scale, min=3755, max=3970. The Earth disk subtends 16 pixels, or approximately 1.6 degrees. The moon (seen in lower left) subtends
approximately 1.5 pixels or 0.15 degrees. The Earth and moon centers are separated by approximately 35 pixels
in this image (along a diagonal), or approximately 4.8 degrees


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