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A camera calibration target sits on the deck of the NASA's InSight lander, adorned with the flags of the countries...
NASA Mercury Laser Altimeter MLA is shown ranging to Mercury surface from orbit. In this animation, yellow flashes...
This mosaic image shows the first target NASA Curiosity rover aims to zap ChemCam instrument. ChemCam will be firing...
STS106-320-014 (10 September 2000) --- Astronaut Richard A. Mastracchio, mission specialist, uses a handheld laser...
S127-E-011166 (28 July 2009) --- Astronaut Christopher Cassidy, STS-127 mission specialist, uses a handheld laser...
STS102-E-5064 (10 March 2001) --- Astronaut Andrew S.W. Thomas, STS-102 mission specialist, uses a laser ranging...
STS102-E-5085 (10 March 2001) --- Cosmonaut Yury V. Usachev, STS-102 mission specialist, uses a laser ranging device...
Dr. Tom Markusic, a propulsion research engineer at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), adjusts a diagnostic...
NASA researchers have their boots on the ground and wings in the skies in Gabon, on Africa¹s west coast, for a...
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation – or GEDI, pronounced like "Jedi," of Star Wars fame – instrument is...
STS109-E-5003 (3 March 2002) --- Astronaut Richard M. Linnehan, mission specialist, uses a laser ranging device...
S127-E-011291 (28 July 2009) --- Astronauts Tom Marshburn (left) and Christopher Cassidy, both STS-127 mission...
AS14-67-9386 (5 Feb. 1971) --- A close-up view of the laser ranging retro reflector (LR3) which the Apollo 14...
STS109-E-5002 (3 March 2002) --- Astronaut Richard M. Linnehan, mission specialist, uses a laser ranging device...
STS104-E-5026 (14 July 2001) --- Positioned near a window on the aft flight deck of the Space Shuttle Atlantis,...
STS109-346-011 (3 March 2002) --- Astronaut Richard M. Linnehan, STS-109 mission specialist, uses a laser ranging...
S117-E-06953 (10 June 2007) --- Astronaut John "Danny" Olivas, STS-117 mission specialist, aims a laser range finder...
The 9x15 low speed tunnel tests take off and landing of aircraft. The laser velocimetry system for flow measurement...
How do you measure a cloud? Tim Bencic does it with lasers. The NASA Glenn engineer invented a tomography system for...
Test engineers clean the ice cloud detection probe in the Icing Research Tunnel in between test runs. Steam is used...
NASA's Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental Lidar flew over Southwest Greenland's glaciers and sea ice to test a new...
The two main parts of the ChemCam laser instrument for NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission are shown in this...
This pair of images taken a few minutes apart show how laser firing by NASA Mars rover Curiosity removes dust from...
Our Webb Space Telescope’s new look at an exploded star, teams prepare to install some Moon rocket hardware, and...