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koboll on April 14, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?

Does LIDAR penetrate dust? I wonder what we might find if we scanned the entire Moon...

c22 on April 14, 2018 | [–]

We have LIDAR scans of most of the moon.

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2...

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/clementine.html

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentDisplay.do?id=1994...

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201200...

ryl00 on April 14, 2018 | [–]

Maybe a monolith? ;)

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