A request from the Ministry of Defense to scientists: find a way to make it rain! The Pentagon donated $7.5 million to help achieve this goal and scientists believe they have found a way by using a high energy laser beam.
NASA has had a space probe called the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer circling the moon getting ready to receive the first laser data transmission in space. The LADEE probe successfully received a ‘world wide web’ type of transmission between Earth and the moon probe more than 239,000 miles away. There is a reason NASA is testing this.