Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) is the practice of measuring the distance between the surfaces of the Earth and the Moon using laser ranging. The distance can...
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The Laser Ranging Retroreflector (LRRR) is the first ever deployable lunar laser ranging experiment. It was carried on Apollo 11 as part of the Early Apollo...
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an average rate of 3.8 cm (1.5 in) per year, as detected by the Lunar Laser Ranging experiment. Because of the influence of the Sun and other perturbations...
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Moonbase (redirect from Lunar base)
lunar laser ranging. In the 2010s, the International Lunar Network consisting of robotic instruments placed around the moon was also proposed. Lunar orbital...
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The Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation, or APOLLO, is a project at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico. It is an extension...
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Lunokhod space programs. These retroreflectors are also ranged on a regular basis (lunar laser ranging), providing a highly accurate measurement of the dynamics...
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Chandrayaan program. Lunar reflectors have enabled precise measurement of the Earth–Moon distance since 1969 using lunar laser ranging. Several unsuccessful...
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from laser ranging retro-reflectors (LRRRs, or arrays of corner-cube prisms used as targets for Earth-based tracking lasers) on Lunar Laser Ranging experiments...
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Libration (redirect from Lunar libration)
the Lunar Laser Ranging experiment and 2 retroreflectors by Lunokhod rovers allowed accurate measurement of the physical librations by laser ranging to...
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Moon (redirect from Lunar mass)
S.G.; Boggs, D.H.; Ratcliff, J.T. (2006). "Lunar laser ranging science: Gravitational physics and lunar interior and geodesy". Advances in Space Research...
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long history of lunar theories: it stretches from the times of the Babylonian and Greek astronomers, down to modern lunar laser ranging. Among notable...
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they planted retroreflector arrays to make possible the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment. Laser beams are focused through large telescopes on Earth aimed...
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Lunokhod 1 (category Lunar rovers)
rover in Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter image M114185541RC (Line 21977, Sample 3189). In April 2010, the Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation...
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Kennedy–Thorndike experiment have been conducted using optical cavities or Lunar Laser Ranging. For a general overview of tests of Lorentz invariance, see Tests...
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LRRR may refer to: Laser Ranging Retroreflector, for Lunar laser ranging Lrrr, a character in the TV series Futurama LRR (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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Scientific research satellites Lunar Laser Ranging experiment – Measuring the distance between the Earth and the Moon with laser lightPages displaying short...
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Investigator on the Apollo Program's Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment, which significantly restricted the possible range of spatial variation of the strength...
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Remote Camera Tianwen-1 Deployable Camera 2 List of laser ranging satellites Lunar Laser Ranging experiment Balloon satellites Satellite geodesy "NASA...
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Retroreflector (redirect from Laser retroreflector array)
laser ranging. LAGEOS, or Laser Geodynamics Satellites, are a series of scientific research satellites designed to provide an orbiting laser ranging benchmark...
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Internal structure of the Moon (redirect from Lunar mantle)
collected from the Lunar Laser Ranging experiment with lunar gravity field data from the GRAIL mission, shows that for a relaxed lunar fluid core with non-hydrostatic...
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polarization of the lunar orbit. To test for the existence (or absence) of the Nordtvedt effect, scientists have used the Lunar Laser Ranging experiment, which...
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Nordtvedt effect. This effect has been sensitively tested by the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment. Up to the limit of one part in 1013 there is no Nordtvedt...
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MoonLIGHT (category Lunar science)
Laboratories of Frascati (INFN-LNF) to complement and expand on the Lunar Laser Ranging experiment started with the Apollo Program in 1969. MoonLIGHT was...
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retroreflectors for the Lunar Laser Ranging experiments left there by the Apollo 11, 14, and 15 astronauts, Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander, and by the Soviet...
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Selenographic coordinate system (redirect from Lunar coordinate)
the coordinate system has become more precisely defined due to the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment. Anything past 90°E or 90°W would not be seen from Earth...
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water ice deposits. Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter investigation provides a precise global lunar topographic model...
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Apollo 11 (section Launch and flight to lunar orbit)
used to measure moonquakes and a retroreflector array used for the lunar laser ranging experiment. Then Armstrong walked 196 feet (60 m) from the LM to...
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gravitational fields. In 1986, Bartlett and Van Buren noted that lunar laser ranging had detected a 2 km offset between the moon's center of figure and...
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more precisely defined using the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment. By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the...
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VLBI), visible stars (in stellar triangulation), and the retroreflectors on the Moon (in lunar laser ranging, LLR). Astronomical geodesy v t e v t e...
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