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Media:  IMAGE
Format:  JPEG (544 x 431)
JPEG (1280 x 1016)
JPEG (3072 x 2439)
Date:  07.01.1991
Title:  LASE equipment mounting deck assembly
Description:  LASE installation graphic illustration; LASE equipment mounting deck assembly graphic illustration. The Lidar Atmospheric Sensing experimental (LASE) instrument, which lies on NASA's high-altitude ER-2 aircraft, has been developed AS A PRECURSOR TO FUTURE NASA Space-Based Global Lidar missions. LASE performed the first ever, fully autonomous, Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) vertical profile measurements of water vapor and Lidar measurements of aerosols and provided the highest altitude tropospheric data ever recorded.
ID:  EL-1996-00122
Other ID:  L91-7361
Credit:  NASA Langley Research Center (NASA-LaRC)
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Sponsor: NASA STI (Scientific and Technical Information) Program
Date: 01.20.2004