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Mona Lisa and the Moon

  • April 2, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is smiling in space. For NASA’s first display of how laser communication could back up or someday replace the standard radio-wave method, scientists beamed an image of the famous painting to a satellite orbiting the moon.

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