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Outside Sensors
Four wide-angle cameras on the surface tower provide the outside view, but windblown grime steadily coats their lenses.
Story so far
Cleaning the outside sensors means wiping their lenses. Holston cleaned four cameras mounted around the surface tower and confirmed that physical grime rubbed off a lens.
The clear view is temporary: windblown dust begins dirtying the lenses the day after cleaning, and a passing whirlwind leaves a thin film. The sensors sit in bulging pods mounted on the tower’s faces.
Appearance
Four cameras with wide, curved fish-eye lenses, housed in bulging pods on the faces of the surface tower.
Role
They supply the view from outside and require repeated wiping to remove accumulating dust.
Sources — 7 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 2
- Cleaning the outside sensors involves wiping their lenses.
Chapter 6
- The silo’s cameras have wide curved fish-eye lenses mounted around the surface tower.
- There are four cameras for Holston to clean.
- Holston confirms that physical grime rubs off a camera lens.
Chapter 8
- Windblown dust begins dirtying the outside sensor lenses the day after a cleaning.
- A passing dust whirlwind leaves a thin film on the outside view.
Chapter 34
- The outside sensors sit in bulging pods mounted on the faces of the tower.