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Two billion laser flashes from space

Submit on Friday, October 23rd, 2009 05:57

The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission, developed by NASA’s Langley Research Center and CNES has fired its lasers into the Earth’s atmosphere over two billion times since its April 2006 launch.
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