PACE Engineers Work on Focal Plane Assemblies
Credit: Ulrik Gliese (NASA GSFC). Download this image (JPG, 418 KB).
According to Ulrik Gliese, Instrument Science and Technology Manager for the Ocean Color Instrument on PACE, "The Focal Plane Assemblies are one of the most important parts of the instrument. They collect a small number of photons from the telescope and convert them into a large number of electrons before sending them to the rest of the instrument."