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The LCROSS Mid-Infrared Camera 2 (MIR2) is one of two MIR cameras on the spacecraft. MIR2 is a ThermoVision Micron microbolometer designed to return MIR (6.0 - 13.5 micron) thermal images of the Centaur impact and resulting ejecta cloud, monitor the ejecta cloud morphology, determine the MIR grain properties, measure the thermal evolution of the ejecta cloud, and return remnant crater imagery. The camera consists of an uncooled microbolometer focal plane sensor, 164 x 128 pixels digitized at 14-bits and a 30 mm, f/1.6 lens with a 15.0 x 11.0 degree field of view. The instrument is mounted on the inboard side of the LCROSS R6 radiator panel with its aperture pointing in the +X spacecraft direction.
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