NASA sends Mona Lisa to the Moon
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Image as sent through the Earth's atmosphere and after applying the Reed-Solomon error correction (Image: Xiaoli Sun, NASA Goddard)
Artist's concept of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (Image: NASA)
Artist's concept of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (Image: NASA)
Launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (Photo: NASA)
Artist's concept of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (Image: NASA)
Artist's concept of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (Image: NASA)
Artist's concept of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (Image: NASA)
Engineering model of the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) (Photo: NASA)
An image of the Mona Lisa has been beamed by laser to a probe orbiting the Moon
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High art recently met high tech as NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) received an image of the Mona Lisa via laser. Traveling about 240,000 miles (386,000 km), the image was sent to the probe in lunar orbit using a laser beamed from NASA’s Next Generation Satellite Laser Ranging (NGSLR) station at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland as a demonstration of lasers as a deep-space communications tool.
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