[SLS-OCM] Mona Lisa on the Moon

[Gian.Paolo.Calzolari at esa.int]

Congratulations to our NASA colleagues for this achievement  (and good 
advertisement).

Look at 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FXeENwPr1Ic#!   or 
at http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011100/a011137/   for a nice 
video.

"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 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."

Best regards

Gian Paolo Calzolari
SLS Area Director and SLS-OCM Acting Chair

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