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Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment from the Apollo 11 mission. Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) is the practice of measuring the distance between the surfaces of the Earth and the Moon using laser ranging.The distance can be calculated from the round-trip time of laser light pulses travelling at the speed of light, which are reflected back to Earth by the Moon's surface or by one of several ...
Can an amateur astronomer test the Lunar Laser Ranging ...
The laser is actually pretty safe for everything other than eyeballs. It barely burns paper when it comes out of the laser as a 2 cm beam. When we shoot it at the Moon the pulse is expanded to the full 3.5 meters of the telescope mirror. At that size the laser's average power/cm 2 is not much more than a laser pointer.
Proof we made it to the moon: You can still bounce a laser off ...
An American flag wasn't the only thing astronauts left behind on the moon 50 years ago. One of the experiments taken into space on Apollo 11 was called the Lunar Laser Retro-Reflector, and it ...
Can an amateur astronomer bounce a laser off the moon?
In the TV show "Big Bang Theory" episode "The Lunar Excitation", the gang fires a laser from their rooftop, bounces it off mirrors on the moon, and measures the laser coming back on a computer.Is this really possible? I know scientists have successfully done this, because it's why NASA put the mirrors on the moon.
Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation
High precision Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) started soon after the Apollo 11 astronauts left the first retroreflector on the Moon. [3] Additional reflectors were left by the Apollo 14 and Apollo 15 astronauts, and two French-built reflector arrays were placed on the Moon by the Soviet Luna 17 and Luna 21 lunar rover missions.Over the years since, many groups and experiments have used this ...
Shooting Lasers at the Moon: Hal Walker and the Lunar ...
The Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969 introduced The Lunar Laser Ranging Interplanetary Experiment led by Hildreth (Hal) Walker Jr. This ongoing experime...
Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR)
The LLR experiment has continuously provided range data for about 41 years, generating about 17000 normal points (Figure 2). The main benefit of this space geodetic technique is the determination of a host of parameters describing lunar ephemeris, lunar physics, the Moon's interior, various reference frames, Earth orientation parameters and ...
NASA bounces laser off 'Oreo-sized' mirror on the moon for 1st time
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully bounced a laser off of a cookie-sized mirror on Inida's Vikram moon lander in an experiment that could greatly improve the precision of future moon ...
Why Is the Apollo Reflector Experiment Still Operating, 50 Years Later?
The NASA experiment, called the laser ranging retroreflector, is "a special type of mirror with the property of always reflecting an incoming light beam back in the direction it came from ...
Is pinging the Moon with a laser as shown on "The Big Bang Theory
The average power of the laser is going to be a few Watts or so. That's why each pulse contains "200 quadrillion photons". The laser beam has to be collimated with a large telescope (like a meter or more in diameter) to make the spot on the moon small enough, and the received photons on Earth has to be collected with a large telescope as well.
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Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment from the Apollo 11 mission. Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) is the practice of measuring the distance between the surfaces of the Earth and the Moon using laser ranging.The distance can be calculated from the round-trip time of laser light pulses travelling at the speed of light, which are reflected back to Earth by the Moon's surface or by one of several ...
The laser is actually pretty safe for everything other than eyeballs. It barely burns paper when it comes out of the laser as a 2 cm beam. When we shoot it at the Moon the pulse is expanded to the full 3.5 meters of the telescope mirror. At that size the laser's average power/cm 2 is not much more than a laser pointer.
An American flag wasn't the only thing astronauts left behind on the moon 50 years ago. One of the experiments taken into space on Apollo 11 was called the Lunar Laser Retro-Reflector, and it ...
In the TV show "Big Bang Theory" episode "The Lunar Excitation", the gang fires a laser from their rooftop, bounces it off mirrors on the moon, and measures the laser coming back on a computer.Is this really possible? I know scientists have successfully done this, because it's why NASA put the mirrors on the moon.
High precision Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) started soon after the Apollo 11 astronauts left the first retroreflector on the Moon. [3] Additional reflectors were left by the Apollo 14 and Apollo 15 astronauts, and two French-built reflector arrays were placed on the Moon by the Soviet Luna 17 and Luna 21 lunar rover missions.Over the years since, many groups and experiments have used this ...
The Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969 introduced The Lunar Laser Ranging Interplanetary Experiment led by Hildreth (Hal) Walker Jr. This ongoing experime...
The LLR experiment has continuously provided range data for about 41 years, generating about 17000 normal points (Figure 2). The main benefit of this space geodetic technique is the determination of a host of parameters describing lunar ephemeris, lunar physics, the Moon's interior, various reference frames, Earth orientation parameters and ...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully bounced a laser off of a cookie-sized mirror on Inida's Vikram moon lander in an experiment that could greatly improve the precision of future moon ...
The NASA experiment, called the laser ranging retroreflector, is "a special type of mirror with the property of always reflecting an incoming light beam back in the direction it came from ...
The average power of the laser is going to be a few Watts or so. That's why each pulse contains "200 quadrillion photons". The laser beam has to be collimated with a large telescope (like a meter or more in diameter) to make the spot on the moon small enough, and the received photons on Earth has to be collected with a large telescope as well.