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Friday, February 15, 2008

MIT, NASA to Put Telescopes On the Moon

NASA approved today an MIT proposal to plan an array of radio telescopes on the FAR SIDE OF THE MOON. Called the Lunar Array for Radio Cosmology (LARC) project, the moon location would shield the telescopes from light and radio interference from the Earth, which would radically improve the quality of the observations. The array would cover some two square kilometers, and be installed by robots. I want one!

Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

hmm with no atmosphere to protect it? whatsto stop star dust, meteors and other space dangerous form tearing up the base and messing up the lens. We can see the moon obviously get nailed by things quite alot.

Saturday, February 16, 2008 8:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Um...anonymous, there AREN'T any lenses in radio telescopes...

Saturday, February 16, 2008 8:04:00 PM  

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