Leaders in Lidar | Chapter 3: Take the Next Steps

Riding on the success of MOLA, the Goddard team develops new lidar instruments for Earth, the Moon and Mercury. Each new instrument is a major leap forward in technology and scientific ambition and equally fraught with challenges.

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Music: "Breakthrough Discovery," "Chasing Lights," "Prism Lights," "Ellipsis," "What Have We Done," "Resistor," "Starlight Andromeda," "Cascadia," "Everyday Stories," Universal Production Music.

Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBRwyle): Producer, Writer, Editor, Animator, Researcher
LK Ward (KBRwyle): Narrator, Project support
James Garvin (NASA, Chief Scientist Goddard): Scientist, Interviewee, Project support
Thomas A. Neumann (NASA/GSFC): Scientist, Interviewee, Project support
Bryan Blair (NASA/GSFC): Interviewee
David E. Smith (NASA/GSFC): Interviewee
James Abshire (NASA/GSFC): Interviewee
Jan McGarry (NASA/GSFC): Interviewee
Jay Zwally (NASA/GSFC): Interviewee
Ralph Dubayah (University of Maryland): Interviewee
Xiaoli Sun (NASA/GSFC): Interviewee
Jack L. Bufton (GST): Interviewee
John F. Cavanaugh (NASA/GSFC): Interviewee
Joseph-Paul A. Swinski (NASA/GSFC): Interviewee
David Lloyd Rabine (NASA/GSFC): Project support
Kathryn Mersmann (NASA/GSFC): Project support
Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Videographer
Rob Andreoli (AIMM): Videographer

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Chapter Markers:
00:00 Intro
00:55 A Mission for Ice
03:05 Mysteries on ICESat
04:58 Measuring Mercury
06:54 Lunar Lidar
08:27 LOLA Is Silent
10:15 Coming Up Next