Sci Fi Much? This week NASA used a Laser to beam a picture of the famous painting to the moon. The image traveled almost 240,000 miles from the Next Generation Satellite Laser Ranging station at NASA to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter orbiting the moon.
In the future this type of communication could be an alternative to radio transmission… or someday be used for higher data rates than radio…
That's some cool spacey stuff right there. Bring on the holodeck!
(Note: it did not look like the attached picture.. it was grey and pixely.. but this picture is cooler)
#nasa #monalisa #technology
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nice
Amanda Blain very nice
Hehe you know there was a discussion at NASA to use the troll face. You know one guy was just like "ok come on, for like 2 seconds, not many people will notice I swear!"
Reminded me of this: http://what-if.xkcd.com/13/
Next week it will be a big red letter "g" and a plus sign.
This is the closest nasa came to having someone up there
Neat-o keen!
lucky mona lisa reached up there…!
Great stuff
Beautiful! too much sugar
Nice
photoshopped..imo…
Some of me fav people on the internet.. love to point out things like Photoshop to "one up" those around them… but can't be bothered to scan to the bottom of the post where it clearly states… "not a legit image"…… #justsaying
said too much sugar right now its all sand
Moona Lisa. Group Hug
How about Mars?
hear Nike and McDonalds are lining up next .. the full moon .. sponsored tonight by ….
Lol
For geeks that want to perceive the info more grandly….the speed of light is 186k mi/s, and the data traveled ~250k miles total…nice.
Under 2 seconds would definitely be an acceptable time frame in which to receive information from my minions completely dominating Earth and transmitting the death screams to me on my moon base.
And if my math is wrong, my moon base joke redeems me.
Bonita foto
New way of sumining batman??
Is this where tax money goes to? +NASA
Makes u wonder ? WHY? DONT THEY HAVE BETTER THINGS TO COME UP WITH?
Can you imagine how much companies are going to pay to put advertisements on the moon?! They could fund another project over night!
What's next the bat signal
She never was the best looking women -who decided to send her–donald duck or goofy would have been better
She never was the best looking women -who decided to send her–donald duck or goofy would have been better
+1 for the note at the bottom.
+1 for the note at the bottom.
Nice
Nice
Cool
Cool
ill just clarify…. Nothing was beamed ONTO the moon.. it was transmitted to the moon..
download put together… from the data stream… There is no images on the moon folks.
ill just clarify…. Nothing was beamed ONTO the moon.. it was transmitted to the moon..
download put together… from the data stream… There is no images on the moon folks.
I love the idea that people want to beam images of the Mona Lisa to the moon. That would be so cool +Amanda Blain. Maybe we should send the painting on a goodwill tour of the universe. I'd back that.
I love the idea that people want to beam images of the Mona Lisa to the moon. That would be so cool +Amanda Blain. Maybe we should send the painting on a goodwill tour of the universe. I'd back that.
O i was about to say lol
O i was about to say lol
Cute
Cute
Next, McDonalds ads.
Next, McDonalds ads.
Woe
+Luis Alvarez; LOL; their share prices would then cost six trillion times as much as I have to pay for rent
"Eat with Joe" looks more accurately
Wow. Really?for what does NASA do it.
should have been the bat signal!
What a waste of money. Just a gimmick for NASA to keep getting money. Let's beem an non recognizable image on the mone and not try to cure AIDS or cancer.
Peoples inability to read gets to me.. NO IMAGE APPEARED ON THE MOON.. it was simply transmitted . like an upload… via laser… geesh people .. READ!
Leo would be proud!!
Should beam a bare bum, just so I can say "the moon mooned me". Selfish, I know.
cool!
They have been bouncing laser and radio waves off the moon for a while. Putting an image on it or transferring data in such a manor won't be efficient simply because of the distance and it isn't always in a position to use. You would have to have a network of satellites still surrounding the planet to make good continual use of it. Which means it will be no faster than just using the satellites themselves.
cool ha !
crap now we'll have billboards on the moon advertising whatever garbage we don't need to buy!!
Was it a experiment to transmit data faster and return clear,better that ever??
For real?! I wish I could have seen that.
Beam me up Scotty… Yes I know Amanda, I see your eyes rolling off the reflection of Mona Lisa's eyes on the moon.
Lmao @Amanda Blains exasperation. I like the moon as is
maybe someday this technique can be used to post ads…look up to the moon,there's a big logo on it,ha~
Mona in the Moon. I always look at the moon as feminine energy. Now I have a face to put to it.
So who's the moon's landlord, I'd charge somebody for that.
now the Moonians will think Earthlings are ugly
u r raly sexy
и как будем без радио
wow
Nice
Gud work
+Arnold Moran I have a feeling this was just for publicity as they have been sending data to and from Mars yet the media doesn't talk about it.
Every person saying it was a "waste of money" should try reading the description. They weren't just doing it for s**ts and giggles as you seem to think.
Your taxdollars at work…….
+Don Sobotor …testing new, higher bandwidth forms of long range communication. Nope, no possible practical use for that, ever…..
+Dennis Gutknecht, Jr I think people are tired of government wasting money. Chances are Space X and Virgin will be able to that for less. Just cause NASA can throw money at a problem doesn't mean they should.
But what if that problem can be solved?
+Mark Leach if people were actually worried about government waste, then NASA would be about the last place to look given how small a fraction of all government spending their budget makes up. No, I think this is about people being overly cynical and knee-jerk reactionaries. As for private industry being a better option, that remains to be seen, given the somewhat spotty track record with that sort of thing in other endeavors
"NASA Solves Budget Woes by Selling Moon Ads"
NASA, like the military and the interstate highway system, is exactly the kind of thing that should be government controlled. It handles huge projects that require lots of coordination and profitability is not the main goal. There is return on investment due to the advancement of knowledge but that isn't the primary reason for NASA's existence.
hell yeah sounds good to me
so good
I LOVE IT
OMG! What's next? Are we going to send kitty cats up there to chase the laser pointer around?
.. imposiblity..
Well it so good
wow, i'd love to see that
Love you
E mais uma farça da nasa como muitas outras porai.
yes ! ! ! .
hello as this you are a very beautiful woman
Please tell me they did this legit. Otherwise I will be very, very angry. jk
yes is good
Ye to monalesa hai
wow very beautiful this picture
Wow
Its very cool
I bet Leonardo would've +1ed this.
very nice
its intesting tohave such a wanderful experience
Amanda, tú eres ese tipo de mujer que uno ama, sin haber conocido.
do u be live ????????????????????????????????????
it look like photoshop
That is photoshop, but the other photo was too grey and pixely, like she said.
Wow
Thats so so coll beam me up on the moon that would be so coll
wow…
wandrfull From bildinswein ih bin swein mathematishe swein
nice
nice
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Awesome