Re: Re: Cave skylight on the Moon
There IS an orbiting laser right now - LOLA -
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002100/
http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/lola/images/LOLA_Fact_Sheet.pdf - 15.5 MB!
The LOLA instrument puts down a "5-dot" pattern of laser spots over an area only 50m across so it's capable, in principle, of measuring this crater. Unfortunately, in the 1-year mission plan, these 50m strips of topography will be seperated (at the equator) by 1.25km of uninspected terrain.
I suspect there will be an attempt to get an off-nadir oblique scan of this specific crater, later in the LRO mission.