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WATCH: NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Set to Arrive at Mars on February 18, 2021 – SpaceCoastDaily.com
NASA’s Perseverance rover – scheduled to land on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021 – carries the palm-size Laser Retroreflector Array (LaRA).
By Space Coast Daily // January 2, 2021
ABOVE VIDEO:NASAs Perseverance Mars Rover is set to arrive at Mars on February 18, 2021.
(NASA) When the Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon, they brought devices with them called retroreflectors, which are essentially small arrays of mirrors.
The plan was for scientists on Earth to aim lasers at them and calculate the time it took for the beams to return.
This provided exceptionally precise measurements of the Moon’s orbit and shape, including how it…
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