How the Navigation Doppler Lidar Works on the Moon’s South Pole

How the Navigation Doppler Lidar Works on the Moon’s South Pole

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Navigation Doppler Lidar is a series of lasers and telescopes that can precisely tell a spacecraft where it’s located above the ground down the centimeter. It’s important at the Moon’s south pole, where the terrain is known to be rough. The NDL hitched a ride to the Moon aboard the Intuitive Machines Odysseus lander.

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