{"id":181023,"date":"2024-01-21T16:23:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T22:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/researchers-optimize-3d-printing-of-optically-active-nanostructures"},"modified":"2024-01-21T16:23:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T22:23:37","slug":"researchers-optimize-3d-printing-of-optically-active-nanostructures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/researchers-optimize-3d-printing-of-optically-active-nanostructures","title":{"rendered":"Researchers optimize 3D printing of optically active nanostructures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-optimize-3d-printing-of-optically-active-nanostructures2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has successfully bounced a laser off of India\u2019s Vikram lander, which <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/india-rover-moon-south-pole\" class=\"\">successfully touched<\/a> down on the Moon\u2019s surface in August.<\/p>\n<p>The LRO\u2019s laser altimeter aimed its sights at Vikram in December, shooting it with a series of laser pulses. Vikram\u2019s 2-inch-wide retroreflector, which comes courtesy of NASA, bounced these signals right back, with scientists confirming the first-of-its-kind \u201cping\u201d moments later.<\/p>\n<p>The feat could revolutionize the way we locate objects and determine their exact locations on the Moon\u2019s surface from vast distances using a surprisingly low-tech solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has successfully bounced a laser off of India\u2019s Vikram lander, which successfully touched down on the Moon\u2019s surface in August. The LRO\u2019s laser altimeter aimed its sights at Vikram in December, shooting it with a series of laser pulses. Vikram\u2019s 2-inch-wide retroreflector, which comes courtesy of NASA, bounced these signals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-nanotechnology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}