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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Fastest Optical Shutter

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/materials-05o.html]Might involve Mars some day, in some way?

*This is totally new to me.  :-\  Was going to post it in the Science & Technology folder, but am wondering how/if it has a place in future space exploration endeavors, and specifically Mars.

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

srmeaney

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From: 18 tiwi gdns rd, TIWI NT 0810

Registered: 2005-03-18

Posts: 976

Re: Fastest Optical Shutter

1. Vanadium Oxide looks to be a good way to photograph the sun (and the universe) for energy sources in the terrahertz range.

2. Certainly it offers a good use as a heat reflector for Windows on Mars and the Moon. Not to clear if it functions as a Gas within enclosed volume or as a crystaline/ceramic structure though.