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Description Laser from McDonald Observatory heading towards the Moon. This photo shows the McDonald Observatory shooting a laser at the retroreflectors left by the astronauts and the Russian lunar rovers. This measures the distance to the moon to very high precision, a few cm.
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30 January 2008

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