Nasa suggested it could be used in detectors and instrument components where stray-light causes problems.

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This restriction has been established to avoid the possibility of an accidental pointing error causing too much light to fall upon an instrument.

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Unlike conventional cameras, our femto camera captures an image as one thin slice at a time of one-dimensional space using a "streak tube, " a laboratory instrument that is commonly used by chemists to study light passing through chemical samples.

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Joining Forces has been a wonderful instrument just to raise the bar, to shine a light on these issues.

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The workshop stressed the importance of Database's objective as an instrument to protect cultural heritage, by fighting against looting, theft, illegal export and import in the light of the UNESCO Convention of 1970 on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property and of the UNESCO Convention of 2001 on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage.

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