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Roselyne Min

Are lasers the key to GPS like navigation on the Moon?

Scientists have proposed building extremely stable lasers in the Moon’s darkest craters to help future spacecraft navigate and keep time more accurately, according to a new study.

Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in the United States, proposed in a peer-reviewed study placing a small silicon device inside one of the Moon’s permanently shadowed craters to stabilise laser light.

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