Thursday, November 3, 2011

NASA studying ways to make 'tractor beams' a reality

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News
Tractor beams -- the ability to trap and move objects using laser light -- are the stuff of science fiction, but a team of NASA scientists has won funding to study the concept for remotely capturing planetary or atmospheric particles and delivering them to a robotic rover or orbiting spacecraft for analysis.
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