Sentences with phrase «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.

The global maps were created from data obtained by an instrument called the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), which bounces an infrared laser beam off the surface and calculates the distance from the spacecraft by measuring the time it takes to detect the reflected pulse.

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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Meanwhile, having delivered the lander, an orbiter craft would spend three months taking laser, magnetic and seismic measurements to unravel more about the basic structure of the planet.

Transmitting readings from all those spacecraft would be difficult with radio signals, so the Telecommunications Orbiter will send information home via beams of laser light.

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

Further, the orbiter's laser altimeter helped scientists create the best - ever topographic map of the Red Planet, and readings from its magnetometer indicate that Mars once had a global magnetic field, just like Earth.

NASA's newest moon orbiter is beaming data to Earth via a powerful laser beam to test an innovative interplanetary communications systems that doesn't rely on radio waves, and a new photo reveals just what a moon laser signal looks like in infrared.