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A new NASA-developed, laser-based space communication system will enable higher rates of satellite communications...
Visible near the center of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover in this illustration is the palm-size dome called the...
NASA Curiosity rover shot its laser 50 times at rocks exposed by thrusters on the rover sky crane at the scour mark...
The Fast Cloud Droplet Probe, or FCDP is a laser-based, profiler instrument that performs particle-size detection of...
Goddard scientist David Harding and Goddard technologist Tony Yu are developing a lidar system that could meet an...
Mercury Laser Altimeter MLA Measures the Depths of Mercury Craters
The Apollo 15 Lunar Laser Ranging Retroreflector - A Fundamental Point on the Moon
MGS Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Topographic Profile of Impact Crater
MGS Mars Orbiter Laser MOLA Surface Topography of Northern Hemisphere
First Mercury Laser Altimeter MLA Results from Orbit
Laser Provides First 3-D View of Mars North Pole
MGS Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter MOLA - Mars/Earth Relief Comparison
3000 Mile Laser Altimeter Profile Across Northern Hemisphere of Mars
A laser scans the inside of the X-59 aircraft’s lower engine bay at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale,...
This composite image, with magnified insets, depicts the first laser test by the Chemistry and Camera, or ChemCam,...
This image illustrates the principals of a technique called laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, which the...
NASA Curiosity Mars rover provided this nighttime view of a hole produced by the rover drill and, inside the hole, a...
Laser based blade deflection measurement system on Counter Rotation Pusher Propeller model in 8x6 SWT (Supersonic...
Goddard's Laser Ranging Facility directs a laser toward the Lunar Reconassaince Orbiter on International Observe the...
This image shows laser plasmas in a test lab at Los Alamos National Laboratory, N.M., under typical atmospheric...
NASA Curiosity Mars rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager MAHLI camera on its arm to catch the first images of sparks...
N-213 Laser Optics Laboratory
Mercury Laser Altimeter MLA Images Mercury from 4 Million Kilometers http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10608
How might lasers revolutionize deep space communications? NASA will test high-bandwidth laser (or optical)...