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A Laser from Earth to the Moon

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6830

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00:06:22

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2019

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Summary

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!

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