Space Laser ‘Jedi’ Headed To Space Station To Help Measure Earth’s Trees

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A special telescope called “Jedi” is packed for lift-off next month.
Its mission, according to chief scientific researcher Dr. Ralph Dubayah with the University of Maryland: “It’s going to measure how tall trees are across the globe.”
Project manager Jim Pontius says it will reach all the way “up to about Canada and then down to southern South America.”
“Jedi” was designed and built at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight