LiDAR

http://smartmm.com/portal/NASA/screenshots.html

(From main site http://bloglidar.com/2012/03/09/lidar-data-of-discovery/)

LiDAR, or Light Detection And Ranging, is like radar, in that it can detect the distance to certain objects, but it uses laser instead of radiation. This is a LiDAR show of the NASA shuttle, Discovery.