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Opto-Mechanical Engineer Tyler Evans illustrates how the laser is transmitted from the ATLAS instrument on the...
40x80x120 Foot Wind Tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center Laser Velocimeter (LV) Long Range System. Requesting...
First Laser Altimetry for Mercury
NASA scientist Bryan Blair introduces a laser mapping sensor known as LVIS (the Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor),...
NASA is infusing laser communications technologies to provide missions with enhanced communications capabilities....
Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Passes
Long Range Laser Velocimeter in 40x80x120 Foot Wind Tunnel at NASA Ames. For use in NFAC.
Laser Altimeter Profiles Across Amazonis Planitia
Mars Orbiter Laser Altimiter MOLA Globe
Laser Altimeter Profiles Across Martian Volcanoes
Topographic Profiles from the NEAR Laser Rangefinder
A brief laser flash at the center of the frame was part of an experiment conducted by two NASA CubeSats. In it, one...
Footage of the integration of the ATLAS flight lasers.
This picture shows a lab demonstration of the measurement chamber inside the Tunable Laser Spectrometer, an...
ICESat-2 big send off event for the ATLAS laser instrument at the Goddard Recreation Center
ICESat-2 big send off event for the ATLAS laser instrument at the Goddard Recreation Center
ICESat-2 big send off event for the ATLAS laser instrument at the Goddard Recreation Center
With winter closing in, a new NASA airborne campaign got under way October 31, 2013 in Greenland. For the first...
Opto-Mechanical Engineer Tyler Evans explains how the photons that bounce back from Earth are received and filtered...
Deputy Systems Engineer Phil Luers explains how the ATLAS transmitter and receiver subsystems come together to...
Powered by a laser beam directed at it from a center pedestal, a lightweight model plane makes the first flight of...
NASA Dryden project engineer Dave Bushman carefully aims the optics of a laser device at a solar cell panel on a...
With a laser beam centered on its panel of photovoltaic cells, a lightweight model plane makes the first flight of...
The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver is shown at NASA's...