Sentences with phrase «lunar orbiter laser»

The Moon Wall is a museum exhibit at Adler Planetarium that utilizes data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera and Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter to enable the use to «fly» over the surface of the Moon.

The Miniature Moon Wall is a portable system that utilizes data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera and Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter to enable the use to «fly» over the surface of the Moon.

The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA), one of seven instruments that have circled the moon since June 2009 on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), bounces a laser beam off the lunar surface and times its return to gauge the elevation of the terrain below.

LRO's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA), which can determine the height of a small patch of lunar soil to within 10 centimeters, has enabled scientists to compile a detailed topographical map of 5185 lunar craters, all more than 20 kilometers in diameter.

To search for the tide's signature, the scientists turned to data taken by LRO's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or LOLA, which is mapping the height of features on the moon's surface.

Fisher and her colleagues found evidence of lunar frost by comparing temperature readings from LRO's Diviner instrument with brightness measurements from the spacecraft's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or LOLA.

They combined data from LEND with lunar topography and illumination maps derived from LRO's LOLA instrument (Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter), and temperature maps from LRO's Diviner instrument (Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment) to discover the greater hydrogen abundance and associated surface conditions on PFS.

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Laser altimetry data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have provided a comprehensive look at the cratering history of the inner solar system