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Re:Photo shows Mars rover descent by mturmon on Monday August 06, 2012 @02:42PM (#4346533)
Good point. It's called "pushbroom scanning" and is used on lots of remote sensing satellites.

http://hirise.seti.org/epo/hirise_lesson1.htm

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Re:Photo shows Mars rover descent by jlgreco on Monday August 06, 2012 @05:13PM (#4347315)
On a related note, the "forward looking" in FLIR refers to the fact that FLIR cameras are not sideways tracking, or "pushbroom". The name doesn't actually have anything to do with where the FLIR camera is mounted.
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