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because at that time the engineers were having a hard time finding a safe landing spot for astronauts on the moon. And that’s when Nathan came up with the idea of using this phenomenon to view more detailed images of the surface of the moon, so he developed the scanning technology that made use of magnets and devices that alter the frequency of the radio waves; converting them to light waves that makes the emitted waves visible to the human naked eye. He actually succeeded in developing the “Digital Image Processing”. From that point, the idea of using the nuclear magnetic resonance phenomenon for imaging purposes was born. It was also used by researchers from Princeton University, Max Planck institute and NASA to make a full observation of the sun’s interior. Using a device called the “Magnetic Imager”, scientists were able to view high resolution images of the sun, which helped them in predicting theories on how exactly the sun could transmit its heat from the deep inner core to the surface. In 1970 a medical doctor and research scientist, Raymond Damadian was the first person to discover the basis of using the nuclear magnetic resonance for medical purposes; he discovered that various kinds of [