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posted by takyon on Thursday April 09 2020, @06:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the money-hole dept.

NASA Reveals Wild Project For Turning a Moon Crater Into a Radio Telescope

NASA just gave out a new round of grants for its favourite up and coming innovative space projects – one of which is a plan to fit a 1 kilometre (3,281 foot) radio telescope inside a crater on the far side of the Moon.

The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) would be able to measure wavelengths and frequencies that can't be detected from Earth, working unobstructed by the ionosphere or the various other bits of radio noise surrounding our planet.

Should the plans for the LCRT become a reality – and the new grant money could get it closer to that – it would be the largest filled-aperture radio telescope in the Solar System.

Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) on the Far-Side of the Moon

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday April 09 2020, @06:45PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 09 2020, @06:45PM (#980635) Journal

    Nooooo! Even piss is a valuable recyclable resource on the moon!

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday April 09 2020, @10:33PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Thursday April 09 2020, @10:33PM (#980681) Journal

    Let Baldrick make you some wine!

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