Someone in Australia is currently very pleased that they got to use their fancy 360 degree gamma spectroscope camera device to find that lost radioactive source.

I want one.

ansto.gov.au/news/wa-outback-p

@russss Wonder if we've got these earth facing on satellites? Could it have even been visible there, like city lights?

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I would expect that getting good angular resolution would be difficult. We don't have good lenses for gamma, nor very good gamma reflectors, in particular if you want either of the two to be lightweight.

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