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A Laser from Earth to the Moon
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6830
Duration
00:06:22
Production year
2019
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Fifty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's historic moonwalk, scientific instruments deployed on the Moon's surface continue to supply valuable data to scientists. Thanks to reflectors still in place on the moon's surface, a team of researchers and engineers in France measure the Earth-Moon distance with millimeter precision!