LIDAR"Some type of very large laser-type light is being emitted directly into space from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States scientific research station at the South Pole of the Earth. It is the southernmost point under the jurisdiction (not sovereignty) of the United States."

Return of the LIDAR
A laser shoots into the sky to study the Antarctic atmosphere at Concordia research station
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