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Space Lasers

Released Thursday, October 13, 2011
Updated Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 12:35PM

ID: 10835

- Visualizations by:
- Chris Smith
- Written by:
- Patrick Lynch
- Scientific consulting by:
- Gregory Neumann
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NASA's Chris Smith explains how scientists put lasers to work to study Earth and the moon.

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NASA Science: Planets & Moons

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Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Animators
- Chris Smith (KBRwyle) [Lead]
- Walt Feimer (KBRwyle)
Writer
- Patrick Lynch (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
Video editor
- Chris Smith (KBRwyle)
Scientist
- Gregory Neumann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) [Lead]
Producer
- Chris Smith (KBRwyle)
Videographer
- Rob Andreoli (AIMM)

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