Monday, March 3, 2008

NASA’s plan to put a telescope on the Moon

Richard at Exploring Our World Blog

Over the last 50 years we’ve managed to get telescopes pretty much everywhere: from the remote Atacama desert to the peaks of Hawaiian volcanoes and even to outer space, we’ve got giant eyes on the Universe set up all over the place. But what about a telescope on the Moon?
Well, that may be happening soon as well. NASA has announced that it’s funding a year-long research project into the feasibility of having a telescope on the Moon - although it will not even start being constructed until 2025, so don’t get too excited yet.
The obvious thing to ask is what is the point in spending $1 billion putting a telescope on the Moon?

It’s all down to the problem of interference on Earth.
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