The Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics advances NASA programs through the exploration of Earth and Planetary solid-body physics. These explorations involve the physics and dynamics of the Earth, as well as of other planets and their satellites.

The Laboratory's innovative and exciting programs study the global properties of the solid Earth, global and regional scale vegetation monitoring, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, and laser remote sensing. To learn more about our work, please read the About the Lab section. Please also view the electronic version of our new2003 Annual Report

September 2004

The Mercury Laser Altimeter was recently written up in Opto & Laser Europe, with an article titled, "Mercury Altimeter Set for Warm Reception"

Read the .pdf of the article.

Organizations within the Laboratory

The Space Geodesy Networks & Sensor Calibration Office and the Geoscience Technology Office are being integrated into Code 924 - the Laser Remote Sensing Branch. The links to their homepages will temporarily remain up, until the information contained on them can be incorporated into Code 924's Homepage.