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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. dust? by Kristoph · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The question I would ask is: would not this mirror have a very short lifespan as lunar dust covers/mixes with the liquid surface?

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  2. Re:A lunar telescope is cool and all but... by Cheerio+Boy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What I think they should do is build a huge telescope array on the moon... several miles in diameter. It may sound kind of odd but couldn't you build a bunch of small "mars rover" style robots with dishes on their backs then set them up with swarm/clustering software so that you just keep launching them until you get the size array you want?

    Launch say 5 to start out so that four become the array and one transmits the data back.

    Of course this now has me wondering if Bluetooth will work on the moon... :-)
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