Light Fantastic.

The article discusses the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center's Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD), a demonstration of a higher-bandwidth technology for communicating with spaceborne sensors using light as of November 4, 2013. Its use of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer currently orbiting the Moon is mentioned. LLCD transmits data to a ground-station telescope in New Mexico using laser light, the author says.