Scientists have been sending signals to the Moon for long, they have finally got one back
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Scientists have been firing lasers at NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter since it entered the moon's orbit in 2009. They were firing lasers at a small reflector array roughly the size of a paperback book, trying to bounce light back to Earth. Now after 10 years, for the first time photons have been successfully reflected back to Earth from a lunar orbiter. It will give scientists a new way to perform measurements of and around the Moon.