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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been playing a very interesting game of hide-and-seek with Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), which touched down on the lunar surface on ...

Click to open image viewer. The Laser Ranging Retroreflector is a device that reflects light so that the paths of the reflected rays are parallel to those of the original rays. Instruments placed on ...