Source: European Space Agency Date: 2003-02-12 Space Camera Blazes New Terahertz TrailsNew imaging technology came to life when the European Space Agency's StarTiger team captured the world's first terahertz picture of a human hand. "When we started last June we set an ambitious goal: to build in four months the first compact submillimetre-wave imager with near real time image capturing using state-of-the-art micro-machining technology," said Peter de Maagt, ESA's StarTiger Project Manager, "we reached this goal when the first terahertz images were taken in September." This breakthrough in terahertz imaging opens up the possibility for a new generation of...
