Tag: LASERS

Mapping Ice with Airborne Lasers

Determining whether polar ice quantities are growing or shrinking requires accurate and detailed measurements, year over year. To help make those measurements, IceBridge mission aircraft fire 3,000 pulses of laser …
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Can Lasers Save Us From Turbulence?

Plane turbulence could soon be a thing of the past! There’s a new laser-based system being tested right now that could detect turbulence in a plane’s path long before the …
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