Friday, 17. October 2003

New, Safer Land Mine Detector Unveiled


A new land mine detector has been devised that uses the physics of light to reveal where mines have been recently buried.

The new detector could be used to detect land mines from a safe distance 1,000-feet above ground and dramatically speed up the current method of specially trained soldiers arduously checking the ground with hand-held, ground-penetrating radar.

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