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Google Telescope (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope)

lsst.org — That may be a formidable task: the telescope will survey the southern night sky once a week using a 3-gigapixel digital camera, to obtain time-lapse images of faint astronomical objects. All those images will amount to some 200 terabytes of data every week. More (scroll to bottom): http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/science/09observ.html

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