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JAXA Creates Camera That Can See Radiation

Posted by timothy on from the predator-mecha-are-next dept.

New submitter Ben_R_R writes "The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has created a camera that can 'see' radioactive contamination by detecting gamma rays emitted by radioactive cesium and other substances. The camera has been tested in the disaster evacuation zone around Fukushima. The image captures levels of radiation in six different colors and overlays the result over an image captured with a wide angle lens."

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  1. Not a surprise by Rollgunner · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm pretty sure *every* camera I've ever used could see radiation... In the visible spectrum anyways.

    Back in the stone age of wet photography, it wasn't all that difficult to take pictures of IR or UV, either, come to think of it. Either by accident or design.

    On the serious side, I imagine it was a technical hurdle to manage to filter a CCD in such a way that it could capture useful information from various highly energetic particles hitting it without it being degraded or destroyed in the process.