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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. Favorably reflective mirror? by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Lunar chicks are just gonna love this.

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  2. The interesting part by meldroc · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Borra envisions a telescope with a liquid mirror measuring 66 feet to 328 feet wide.
    Anyone with any knowledge of telescopes will immediately see why astronomers are drooling right now.
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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.

  3. 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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    1. Re:dust? by Octorian · · Score: 4, Insightful

      And what environmental factors could possible cause that on the moon, which has no atmosphere or tectonic activity?

  4. Lunar Lens Takes A Step Forward... by said213 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lunar ant civilization takes two steps back.

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  5. 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)