• NASA scientists build first-ever wide-field X-ray imager.
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[QUOTE][IMG]http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii18/drmabuse06/magnetic_field_earth4large.jpg[/IMG] Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA's first wide-field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying "charge exchange," a poorly understood phenomenon that occurs when the solar wind collides with Earth's exosphere and neutral gas in interplanetary space. The unique collaboration involved heliophysics, astrophysics and planetary science divisions at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and resulted in the first successful demonstration of the Sheath Transport Observer for the Redistribution of Mass (STORM) instrument and a never-before-flown X-ray focusing technology called lobster-eye optics. Source: [URL]http://phys.org/news/2013-02-nasa-scientists-first-ever-wide-field-x-ray.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
Fuck yeah NASA!
Hmmm, could this be used to paint a cosmic picture of X-ray sources from the depths of space?
[QUOTE=ironman17;39507130]Hmmm, could this be used to paint a cosmic picture of X-ray sources from the depths of space?[/QUOTE] no, no it can't
Panoramic x-ray photography? Brilliant!
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