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Gregory Bearman Examining Dead Sea Scroll Images

In a mid-1980s project for the National Archives, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a contractor used CCDs (Charge Coupled Devices), originally developed for the Hubble Space Telescope and the Galileo planetary probe, as the basis of a system that regularly scans historical documents to see if there have been any deteriorating changes.

Here JPL Scientist Gregory Bearman conducts experiments to attempt to recover invisible images from Dead Sea Scroll fragments.