top-down view of T2 lidar (IMAGE)

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

top-down view of T2 lidar

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A top-down view of the lidar. A laser fires from the aperture on the right and then the telescope aperture on the left opens its “eye” briefly to collect photons backscattered from the atmosphere.

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Kevin Coughlin/Brookhaven National Laboratory

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