View into the LSST cryostat assembly.

Mechanical engineer Travis Lange carefully watches the installation of the 14th  raft tower modules.

Jeff Tice, background, holds the particle counter while Travis Lange inspects the surface of the r-band optical filter for dust particles. 

An artist's rendering of the LSST Camera showing its major components including lenses, sensor array, and utility trunk.

The LSST camera integration and testing team is slowly assembling the camera’s focal plane

Hannah Pollek and Travis Lange at the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) raft installation.

The LSST Camera's digital sensor, visible through the camera's five-foot front lens.

Photo of Vera Rubin taken with the focal plane of the LSST Camera.

This photo shows the 3,200-megapixel focal plane of Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera, under construction at SLAC.

SLAC’s LSST camera will explore cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.