David D. Rowlands

TL;DR: The Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) has been used to measure the topography, surface roughness, and 1.064-μm reflectivity of Mars and the heights of volatile and dust clouds as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The strength of the lithosphere beneath the ancient southern highlands suggests that the northern hemisphere was a locus of high heat flow early in martian history and the thickness of the elastic lithosphere increases with time of loading in the northern plains and Tharsis.

TL;DR: The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) as discussed by the authors is an instrument on the payload of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft (LRO) which is designed to measure the shape of the Moon by measuring precisely the range from the spacecraft to the lunar surface.

TL;DR: The overall rate of loss reflects a considerable change in trend from a near balance during the 1990s but is smaller than some other recent estimates.

TL;DR: LOLA's initial global data sets as well as the first high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) of polar topography are described in this article, where LOLA has also provided the highest resolution global maps yet produced of slopes, roughness and the 1064-nm reflectance of the lunar surface.