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Largest Digital Camera Ever Made For Astronomy En Route To Chile Assembly of the world's largest digital astronomy camera is now complete and ready to ship to its new home atop Cerro Pachón, an 8,900 foot mountain in Chile. Engineers and scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California assembled the 3,200 megapixel camera, which weighs approximately 3,000 kilograms.Once installed, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera will be capable of producing approximately 1,000 images and 15 to 20 terabytes of data a night as scientists use it to study dark energy, dark matter, the distribution of galaxies and more.