Nasa has sent the artistic icon Mona Lisa to the moon using a laser.
More or less. A black and white copy of the Mona Lisa has been beamed to Nasa’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), travelling 240,000 miles and retaining a decent portion of its image quality. The image made it all the way to the LRO’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA), in a first of its kind ‘old classics being lasered to the moon’ space trip.