Radio Telescopes on Moon to Study Cosmic Dark Ages

The Narrative Fallacy brings news that NASA has awarded a $500,000 grant to develop plans for an array of radio telescopes to be located on the moon. The telescopes would be used to gather data from the earliest stars and galaxies, observations of which are difficult from Earth due to the ionosphere and terrestrial broadcasts. The grant was part of NASA's sponsoring of 19 "Next Generation Astronomy Missions." Quoting: "The Lunar Array for Radio Cosmology (LARC) project ... is planned as a huge array of hundreds of telescope modules designed to pick up very-low-frequency radio emissions. The array will cover an area of up to two square kilometers; the modules would be moved into place on the lunar surface by automated vehicles. The new lunar telescopes would add greatly to the capabilities of a low-frequency radio telescope array now under construction in Western Australia, one of the most radio-quiet areas on Earth."

Comments

Yeah right

[antifoidulus]

everyone knows they are just going to use the telescope to watch the Amazon women change clothes.

Implementing is not that hard

[Daimanta]

Telescope[] MoonTelescopeArray;

Re:Implementing is not that hard

[clem]

Just be sure you use the delete[] operator when you're done using the telescopes.