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

Head of Romanesco image taken with the focal plane of the LSST Camera.

A SLAC team installs the final components of the LSST Camera focal plane that will become the heart and soul of the future camera of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

SLAC's LSST team carefully unpack, examine, test and store the r-band filter, the first of six optic filters that will be part of the completed LSST Camera.

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera’s focal plane has a surface area large enough to capture a portion of the sky about the size of 40 full moons.

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

The largest digital camera ever built for ground-based astronomy, the 3.2-gigapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time Camera is the size of a small car and weighs more than 3 tons.

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

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