infrared vision
Seeing thermal radiation
Infrared vision is the ability to see heat radiation invisible to normal eyesight.
Some animals, like pit vipers and certain insects, possess natural infrared detection.
Humans achieve it through technology—night-vision goggles, thermal cameras, military targeting systems.
In fiction, infrared vision is a common superpower: The alien switched to infrared vision to track the humans through the darkness.
- thermalPertaining to warmth
- heatTransferred thermal energy
- heat signatureDetectable infrared emission pattern
- thermal imagingDetecting objects by warmth
- heat mapColor-coded intensity chart
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