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Does this technology require clear skies/do clouds block the laser?
by RaRic 13y ago
Does this technology require clear skies/do clouds block the laser?
- krasin 13y ago>The ground stations are at White Sands in New Mexico, at a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory site in Wrightwood, California, and a European Space Agency site in Tenerife, Spain. At least two of these stations are located in mostly-dry climate.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoThe laser uses infrared light with a wavelength of 1550 nm, where the atmosphere is typically transparent even with clouds or rain.