A Powerful Scientific Technique Explores Alien Worlds Using Lasers

In everyday life we look and touch things to find out what they are made of. A powerful scientific technique does the same using lasers – and in two years’ time it will fly in space for the first time. According to ESA on January 10, a researcher with ESA has been investigating how lasers might be used in future space missions.“We fire a laser at a material of interest,” explains Melissa McHugh o