Lunar Opportunities for SETI — mentioned by jessriedel

Sat, 03 Oct 2020 13:16:27 GMT

This is the millionth article on lunar far-side telescopes I've seen that conveniently fails to explain why you'd want to place a radio telescope on the surface rather than just at the Earth-Moon L2 Lagrange point (i.e., the point on the far side of the Moon that orbits with the Moon around the Earth and keeps the Moon between itself and the Earth). I'm sick of not having this obvious question answered, so I dug into it. Like the lunar surface, a telescope at L2 keeps the Moon permanently between itself and the Earth to block incoming radio waves. For a fixed telescope size, going down into…

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Lunar Opportunities for SETI — mentioned by jessriedel