It uses a lens with a diameter of just a few millimeters and covers a much larger field of vision than a conventional rear-view mirror.

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At 180 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter, the Falcon 9 rocket is tiny in comparison to the football-field-long Saturn V rockets that carried Apollo spacecraft into orbit.

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