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NASA | CATS in Space Keep Eyes on Atmosphere
NASA Goddard is preparing to demonstrate for the fist time in space, a 3-wavelength, laser remote sensing instrument. The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System or CATS will measure clouds and aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere. This...
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Russia to build laser cannon to vaporize space debris
The Russian space agency is planning to get rid of space debris by shooting it with a laser cannon, reports RT.
Science360
Laser Balloon
This video teaches about color theory using high powered lasers to pop balloons. It is also an experiment in a new kind of educational video that is more interactive for the viewer.
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Australia demanding China investigate alleged laser incident
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has asked the Chinese government to explain what he called the ‘dangerous’ act of shining a laser at an Australian P-8A surveillance aircraft.
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Ancient enemy built big neighborhood in Mayan city
Researchers used laser technology to scan a hill next to an ancient Mayan city and were shocked to find the hill was actually ruins of structures from a different civilization.
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U.S. Navy announces first operational laser to arm destroyers
The U.S. Navy has put its first laser-equipped destroyer to sea.
Rachel's English
American Accent Training | R vs. L Part 3
This accent training video is an in-depth lesson on the American R and L sounds. Are you learning English? Are you feeling fluent but ready to improve your pronunciation and comprehension? Great! This video is perfect for you. This...
NASA
NASA | Birth of a Space Laser Instrument
A new C02 laser, which will globally measure carbon dioxide from space, is due to be launched in 2023 on the ASCENDS mission. One of the exciting things about this project is that you can actually watch trees eat and breathe. Of course,...
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NASA | Laser Focus
ICESat-2's instrument, ATLAS, is designed to measure heights on Earth. ATLAS has three main tasks: transmitting a pattern of six laser beams, collecting the laser photons that return to the satellite after reflecting off Earth, and...
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NASA | Return with LRO
The Deputy Project Manager for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) program, Cathy Peddie, expresses her personal and professional thoughts on the upcoming LRO mission. From following in the footsteps of her childhood heroes,to...
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NASA | LCRD: From Vision to Reality
Since its inception in 1958, NASA has relied exclusively on radio frequency (RF)-based communications as the only viable medium for exchanging data between a mission and a spacecraft. Today, with missions demanding communication with...
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NASA | Laser Focus: The Receiver
To see how the Transmitter works, go here Opto-Mechanical Engineer Tyler Evans explains how the photons that bounce back from Earth are received and filtered by the ATLAS telescope. ATLAS is the primary instrument on board the ICESat-2...
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ATom Mission interview clips — Róisín Commane
To measure the background atmosphere you need a sensitive instrument. Róisín Commane of Harvard University with the #EarthExpedition ATom mission explains how her instrument uses lasers to detect greenhouse gases. The ATom mission aboard...
Physics Girl
How to control light with water
How fast is the internet? How fast can we send data? This easy DIY experiment allows you to control light with water! Drill a hole in the bottom of a 2 liter bottle, fill the bottle with water allowing the water to stream out the hole,...
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NASA Views Laser Landscapes of Helheim Glacier
What if you could measure a glacier in such detail that you could visualize its surface in 3D? And what if you could compare that view with data from one, two, even 20 years ago? NASA airborne campaigns like Operation IceBridge have been...
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NASA | Mona Lisa on the Moon
As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the spacecraft from Earth. The iconic image traveled...
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Timing Is Everything
Deputy Systems Engineer Phil Luers explains how ICESat-2’s ATLAS instrument transmitter and receiver subsystems come together to calculate the timing of photons, which, in turn, measure the elevation of ice. Credits: Ryan Fitzgibbons;...
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Photon Jump
Pho, a plucky bright green photon of light, must travel from a NASA spacecraft down to Earth and back again to help complete a crucial science mission in this educational short film. The animation was created and produced by media art...
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NASA | Laser Comm: That's a Bright Idea
Laser light made records obsolete. NASA is on the verge of doing the same thing with space based communications. Before the end of the decade, the Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) mission will revolutionize the way we move...
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Photon Phriday: One Phull Orbit
Follow an entire orbit of the ICESat-2 mission as it measures the elevation of oceans, sea ice, mountains, and islands around the Earth. This video shows the same orbit (ground reference track 1352) on two different dates (Dec. 26, 2018,...
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NASA's Laser Mission to Measure Trees
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is a lidar instrument that sends laser pulses down to Earth, where they penetrate the globe's temperate and tropical forests. The laser beams ricochet off the first thing they hit, which...
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NASA Celebrates Earth Day and the Amazing Tech that Makes Earth Exploration Possible
NASA pioneers and supports an amazing range of advanced technologies and tools to help scientists and environmental specialists better understand and protect our home planet - from space lasers to virtual reality, small satellites and...
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NASA | Space Geodesy Profiles: Jan McGarry
Mathematician Jan McGarry discusses the science and history of Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR), her role in developing the Next Generation Satellite Laser Ranging system, and her career at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.