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: 5, Funny) by krishnoid on Thursday April 09 2020, @10:16PM (1 child)
I, however, can guarantee a way to provide funding all the way through to completion.
"The Donald J. Trump great leader, awesome hair, and big hands galactic telescope."
Just watch their funding numbers after that. They get their money, the world gets their Trumposcope, Trump gets his name on something ... everyone's happy.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 09 2020, @10:54PM
Tweetards would not be happy. But they are never happy.