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Lunar Orbiter Lasers Mona Lisa to Moon

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GREENBELT, Md., Jan. 18, 2013 — NASA’s next moon mission has the acronym LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer), but they’ve already sent a lady to the moon — or at least the image of one. Using a precisely timed laser, scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have beamed an image of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, to the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) instrument on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) orbiting the moon. The famous face traveled nearly 240,000 miles in digital form from the Next Generation Satellite Laser Ranging station at...Read full article

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    Published: January 2013
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