Look through Clouds - Looking around corners and through thin turbid layers in real time

[Hugechris]

Look through Clouds a dream maybe - but there have been some interesting developments in the medical world on imaging through opaque materials.

http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphoton.2012.150.html

[George Jones]

Interesting.

A freely available, preliminary version of the paper:

http://arxiv.org/ftp.../1202.2078.pdf

BBC News article about the result:

http://www.bbc.co.uk...nment-18833386

[Naemeth]

If this could be used to actually look through clouds, we'd only ever worry about rain/snow/hail/high wind, white cloud would be fine.

[acey]

George - those links don't appear to work. From what I can gather from the first link it sounds like this might some day be applicable to improving the view through thin haze - but if a thick cloud is reflecting all the starlight back up towards the sky then you'd need some other surface above the clouds catching some of that light and putting the wavefronts back together so you could send it down to the ground. In which case you might as well have a telescope up there. Unless I'm missing something.

[Naemeth]

If you take the . off the bbc link it works .