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There are hot pixels (i.e. dead pixels) on the CCDs as expected. This will be most noticable in the raster data since the same part of the CCD will be used to build up the image. The attached image shows you the how pixels which are see are red streaks across the image. It s predicted that after a 10 year period the CCDs will have less than 5% hot pixels. Hotpixels