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Lidar Calipso's Lidar (Light Detection And Ranging) is a laser ...	Light-year The distance travelled by light in one year. It is equal to ...
LISA Lisa, or Laser interferometer space antenna, is a joint ...	Local group Galaxies usually group together in dense (clusters) or less ...
Longitude One of the astronomical coordinates. The dihedral angle ...	Lunar month A lunar month is the time interval between two new moons ...
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA probe for ...	Luyten, Willem Willem Luyten was an astronomer who, from the 1930s up to ...
M3 The M3 (forMoon Mineralogy Mapper) was an instrument ...	M44 Located 600 light-years away in the constellation of Cancer, ...
Mab A moon of Uranus photographed in 2003 by the Hubble space ...	Magnetar A magnetar is a neutron star with an extremely intense ...
Magnetic reconnection Magnetic reconnection is the mechanism in which the energy ...	Magnetopause The magnetopause is the boundary between the magnetosphere, ...
Magnetosphere The magnetosphere is a space surrounding the Earth beyond ...	Magnitude The brightness of a celestial body. The smaller the value ...
Main cryogenic stage Most of the equipment is located on top of the main ...	Major axis The major axis of an ellipse is its longest axis. It passes ...
Mariner 10 Mariner 10 was the second American Mariner programme probe, ...	Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. ...