NewsBusinessNASA beams Mona Lisa to moon with laser (Pictures)
NASA beams Mona Lisa to moon with laser (Pictures)
New Delhi, Jan 20: Call it an ultimate tech art: NASA has turned Mona Lisa into the first digital image to be transmitted via laser beam from Earth to a spacecraft in lunar orbit, nearly
Here's how they did it: the team divided the famous da Vinci painting into sections measuring 150 by 200 pixels and then transmitted them via the pulsing of the laser to the orbiter at a data rate of about 300 bits per second.
