LOLA Receiver

The LOLA instrument is not an imaging device, but a measurement tool. The lens is designed not to maintain a specific image quality, but rather to collect the maximum number of photons with the fewest possible losses, and to minimize the background radiation, which might interrupt precise measurements.

The 14-centimeter receiver, a 500-milimeter clear aperture refractive telescope, focuses the received photons on to a fiber optic bundle, according to NASA.