Robot lays out an antenna on the lunar surface. Credit- Lunar Resources

Moon’s Far Side: New Observatories Proposed

Sept. 24, 2021

From Leonard David’s Inside Outer Space: Earth’s Moon is being eyed as an on-location locale for operating unique and novel observatories. The just-concluded NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium was the setting for reviewing several NIAC-backed studies. One concept outlined at NIAC is the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) on...