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Lunar Lens Takes A Step Forward

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the looking-to-the-future dept.

palewook writes "A recent breakthrough increased NASA's interest in a lunar-based space telescope. Researchers combined an ionic liquid surface and a layer of silver which produced a favorably reflective mirror."

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  1. Re:The interesting part by Gerzel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hell the placement makes us drool as ANY functioning telescope data from the far side of the moon would probably give us new and tantalizing images.

  2. Answer by Ihlosi · · Score: 4, Informative
    And what environmental factors could possible cause that on the moon, which has no atmosphere or tectonic activity?



    Static electricity is one thing that keeps moving dust around on the moon. And then there's ejected material from meteor impacts (with gravity that low, stuff kicked up by meteors can travel quite far)