stackyFACTSDuring the Apollo missions, astronauts left behind retroreflector panels designed to bounce light straight back to its source. To this day, scientists actively fire high-powered lasers from Earth at these lunar mirrors to measure the exact distance to the moon down to the millimeter.
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