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Lunar Mission to Test Space Laser

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WALLOPS ISLAND, Va., Sept. 6, 2013 — With the upcoming launch of NASA's moon-orbiting Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), the space agency is also venturing into what it hopes will be a new era of broadband space communications using lasers. LADEE, a robotic mission that will orbit the moon to gather detailed information about its atmosphere, conditions near the surface, and environmental influences on lunar dust, will be launched on a Minotaur V vehicle sometime during a five-day launch period that opens at 11:27 p.m. EDT Sept. 6. It will be the first planetary mission to launch from the Wallops Flight...Read full article

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    Published: September 2013
    Glossary
    spectrometer
    A kind of spectrograph in which some form of detector, other than a photographic film, is used to measure the distribution of radiation in a particular wavelength region.
    ultraviolet
    That invisible region of the spectrum just beyond the violet end of the visible region. Wavelengths range from 1 to 400 nm.
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