how camera CCDs fail is sometimes very interesting. I had a canon ixus which failed on a road trip, it grew retro pinstripes. As if a dataline in the scan had failed, and so it had partial feed in a regular pattern out of the cells.

crap getting into otherwise sealed lenses is in some ways more frustrating. the whole device works fine. There's just the ONE speck of dust, which ruins every shot in exactly the same place. I tried taking 2 images with an offset and doing a join, but its harder than it looks. NASA carry this off very well, they have to do a lot of this with gamma ray damage and the like.

Vibration isolation is only going to take you so far. Interesting to wonder how built-in video devices in cars and bikes avoid the risks.