The Surface of LAGEOS (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

The Surface of LAGEOS

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The surface of LAGEOS is dotted with 426 cube-corner prisms to reflect laser pulses transmitted from ground stations on Earth. One sector of a model is shown here. With LAGEOS, the accuracy of laser ranging measurements improved from about 3 feet (1 meter) to less than half an inch (1 centimeter).

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Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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