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With a laser beam centered on its panel of photovoltaic cells, a lightweight model plane makes the first flight of...
The Surface Stereo Imager camera aboard NASA Phoenix Mars Lander acquired a series of images of the laser beam in...
Powered by a laser beam directed at it from a center pedestal, a lightweight model plane makes the first flight of...
With a laser beam centered on its solar panel, a lightweight model aircraft is checked out by technician Tony...
Dr. von Braun and party look at a laser beam component during a visit at the Marshall Space Flight Center Space...
The ChemCam instrument for NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission uses a pulsed laser beam to vaporize a pinhead-size...
The ChemCam instrument for NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission uses a pulsed laser beam to vaporize a pinhead-size...
The SELENE Optics project was designed to send powerful laser beams into space to repower satellites and to recharge...
In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory (OCTL) at NASA Jet Propulsion...
Graphics (McAlister) Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate 3D Laser Velocimeter for Rotor Flow Studies: Focusing of...
A laser beam from the Canadian-built lidar instrument on NASA Phoenix Mars Lander can be seen in this...
Arctic Ozone Expedition Stavanger Norway: Arlin Carter, NASA Langley Research Center, is shown here with colleague...
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) on the space station beams laser light down to Earth to reveal...
Traversing Microphone & Dodecahedron Loudspeaker (with pen lights - laser beams) in Anechoic Chamber with Chris...
The Boussard Interstellar Ramjet engine concept uses interstellar hydrogen scooped up from its environment as the...
This infrared photograph shows the uplink laser beacon for NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)...
A team of NASA researchers from Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and Dryden Flight Research center have proven...
jsc2024e062109 (9/13/2024) ---The ANT1 Radiation Tolerance Experiment with Moss in Orbit on the Space Station...
Optical prots ring the Electrostatic Levitator (ESL) vacuum chamber to admit light from the heating laser (the beam...
Optical prots ring the Electrostatic Levitator (ESL) vacuum chamber to admit light from the heating laser (the beam...
Richard Lancashire operates a gas laser interferometer in the Electric Conversion Laboratory at the National...
This simulated image shows how a cloud of glitter in geostationary orbit would be illuminated and controlled by two...
NASA Lewis Research Center researcher, John S. Sarafini, uses a laser doppler velocimeter to analyze a Hamilton...
This timelapse video shows the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California,...