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N-213 Laser Optics Laboratory with Dana Lynch
NASA is about to launch the agency’s most advanced laser instrument of its kind into space. The Ice, Cloud and land...
N-213 detector set up for 3d LV (laser velocimeter)
Scientists from NASA's Space Geodesy Project discuss the techniques they use to precisely measure the Earth's...
The Chemistry and Camera ChemCam instrument on NASA Mars rover Curiosity used its laser to examine side-by-side...
The Surface Stereo Imager camera aboard NASA Phoenix Mars Lander acquired a series of images of the laser beam in...
A day after NASA Mars rover Curiosity drilled the first sample-collection hole into a rock on Mars, the rover...
N-213 Laser Optics Laboratory - double exposed polaroid by Ken McAlister (engineer) 3-17-89 with Dana Lynch
Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) image feature
On January 14, 2008, NASA MESSENGER spacecraft Mercury Laser Altimeter MLA became the first instrument to measure...
B-roll for media and public use. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment marked a historic...
The Cloud Physics Lidar, or CPL, is a remote sensing, laser-based instrument used to measure the cloud and aerosol...
This infrared photograph shows the uplink laser beacon for NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)...
STS064-33-003 (9-20 Sept. 1994) --- Astronaut Susan J. Helms, STS-64 mission specialist, uses a laser instrument...
The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver can be easily...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover autonomously selects some of the targets for the laser and telescopic camera of the...
Researchers prepare for a test of the Chemistry and Camera ChemCam instrument that will fly on NASA Mars Science...
The ChemCam instrument for NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission uses a pulsed laser beam to vaporize a pinhead-size...
By measuring absorption of light at specific wavelengths, Tunable Laser Spectrometer TLS onboard NASA Curiosity...
The ChemCam instrument for NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission uses a pulsed laser beam to vaporize a pinhead-size...
The Chemistry and Camera ChemCam instrument on NASA Mars rover Curiosity used its laser and spectrometers to examine...
Laser Faint Object Grating Spectrometer (Frogs) with F. Witteborn and Jesse Bregman.
Laser Faint Object Grating Spectrometer (Frogs) with F. Witteborn and Jesse Bregman.
Laser Faint Object Grating Spectrometer (Frogs) with F. Witteborn and Jesse Bregman.