Telescope on the dark side of the moon
The 60-Second Science podcast from February 27, 2008 tells of plans for NASA and MIT to build a giant radio telescope on the dark side of the moon. (The “dark” side is really the “far” side, the side that always faces away from Earth. It gets just as much sunlight as the side we’re familiar with.) This side of the moon is shielded from radio noise from Earth, and so a radio telescope there could detect radio signals further back in time than is possible here. The plan is to use robots to assemble radio antennas over two square kilometers.
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