<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Congratulations to our NASA colleagues
for this achievement (and good advertisement).</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Look at </font><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FXeENwPr1Ic#!"><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FXeENwPr1Ic#!</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
or at </font><a href=http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011100/a011137/><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011100/a011137/</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
for a nice video.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">"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.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The iconic image traveled nearly 240,000
miles in digital form from the Next Generation Satellite Laser Ranging
(NGSLR) Station at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD,
to the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) instrument on the spacecraft.
By transmitting the image piggyback on laser pulses that are routinely
sent to track LOLA's position, the team achieved simultaneous laser communication
and tracking."</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Best regards</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Gian Paolo Calzolari</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">SLS Area Director and SLS-OCM Acting
Chair</font>
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