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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.