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PIA18663: Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory

NASA's Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory (OCTL) dome is located in Table Mountain, California. It is used in conjunction with The Optical PAyload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS).

Target Name:	Earth
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	ISS
Instrument:	OPALS
Product Size:	1261 x 945 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA18663.tif (3.576 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA18663.jpg (111.2 kB)

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The Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory (OCTL) dome is located in Table Mountain, California. It is used in conjunction with The Optical PAyload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS).

OPALS is a partnership between NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; the International Space Station Program (Johnson Space Center, Houston; Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.) and the Advanced Exploration Systems Program (NASA HQ).

For more information, see http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/861.html.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:

2014-08-06