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PIA23131: Lunar Flashlight (Artist's Concept)
This artist's concept shows the Lunar Flashlight spacecraft, a six-unit CubeSat designed to search for ice on the Moon's surface using special lasers.
 Mission:  CubeSat 
 Product Size:  9600 x 7223 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23131.tif (54.2 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23131.jpg (3.871 MB)  

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This artist's concept shows the Lunar Flashlight spacecraft, a six-unit CubeSat designed to search for ice on the Moon's surface using special lasers.

The spacecraft will use its near-infrared lasers to shine light into shaded polar regions on the Moon, while an onboard reflectometer will measure surface reflection and composition.

For more information: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cubesat/missions/lunar_flashlight.php.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2019-03-27