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Lidar Measurements of Snow Falling from Martian Clouds
This image is of the Canadian-built lidar in operation with the cover open was acquired at the NASA Mars Phoenix...
A short video about the Cloud Physics Lidar instrument onboard the HS3 Global Hawk aircraft.
The High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO) instrument head, which houses the lidar instrument, is installed onto the...
Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment (Lase).
Aerosol data from the High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO), pictured here, will give mission scientists a better...
This image from NASA Phoenix Mars Lander of the Canadian-built meteorological station lidar, which was successfully...
The High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO) system electronics and diagnostic tools are integrated onto the DC-8...
Researchers Anna Noe and Eric Altman check out the Doppler Aerosol Wind Lidar (DAWN), an airborne instrument that...
A laser beam from the Canadian-built lidar instrument on NASA Phoenix Mars Lander can be seen in this...
Caption: Mike Krainak (left) and Diego Janches recently won NASA follow-on funding to advance a spaceborne sodium...
On January 22, 2015, the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System was installed on the International Space Station. This...
New maps of two recent California megafires that combine unique data sets from the U.S. Forest Service and NASA's...
The Cloud Physics Lidar, or CPL, is a remote sensing, laser-based instrument used to measure the cloud and aerosol...
Masten Space Systems employees prepare its rocket to flight test NASA -licensed Psionic navigation doppler lidar...
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) uses laser pulses to give a view of the 3D structure of the...
This video looks at a NASA Goddard Instrument Field Team deployment to the Kilbourne Hole maar crater in New Mexico....
This frame from an animation depicts the growth of the lava dome at Mount St. Helens during the most recent period...
During their August 2023 Iceland field campaign, international science team members of NASA's VERITAS (Venus...
A NASA F/A-18 research aircraft flies near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Feb....
Masten Space Systems vertical takeoff vertical landing rocket launched September 10, 2020 to flight test...
Michael Kavaya, of the NASA Langley Research Center, a Principal Investigator for the DAWN experiment, looks over...
Syed Ismail, from the Langley Research Center, principal investigator for the Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment...
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins walks through the lunar-like landscape wearing the Joint AR (Joint Augmented Reality...