The Dark Side of the Moon

>>15395673 (OP)

They're putting a radio telescope on the dark side of the moon soon

>LuSEE-Night is currently scheduled to launch on a private robotic lunar lander in late 2025. After it touches down on the moon's far side, it will attempt to gather first-of-their-kind measurements from the "Dark Ages" of the universe

>The Dark Ages refers to a time in the early universe, between about 400,000 and 400 million years after the Big Bang, before stars and galaxies began to fully form

>The far side of the moon is a great place to look for the faint signals that could hold such clues, because it offers something Earth cannot: a deep and profound silence. Constant radio bombardment across our planet creates an environment too noisy for the supersensitive instruments LuSEE-Night will use

https://www.space.com/moon-far-side-telescope-universe-dark-ages

>>15395673 (OP)

Clingclingcling ! Scritch ! Tacatacatac ! Dum dam dudum doom dum doom...

Dammit, Roger! It's been 50 years. Can't you get over it?

Where's the prism?

A radio telescope is the only kind of telescope that makes sense on the far side of the moon.

>>15395673 (OP)

is that a spot to hook a lanyard in the center?

Awesome!

That......actually makes for a good idea. One of these massive ones. Anyone know if there any plot hole to make this pointless?

>>15395673 (OP)

Why aren't there massive lava plains like there is on the side facing Earth? Did the ancient advanced Earth civilization have some kind of huge war that scarred the Moon?

>>15395673 (OP)



Actually scientists call it the 'far side' of the moon since it gets just as much light as the side that faces earth.

Probably because there is a vast energy differential for the particles that hit the dark side vs the side facing Earth, as well as the MASSIVE gravitational difference in tidal effects, and lastly the vast amount of impacts compared to the Earth facing side will process the surface, so even if there were lava plains, they would likely be transitioned/damaged back into regular regolith at a much faster rate.



Considerations: The side facing Earth is facing deeper into Earth's magnetic field at all times, thus has more EMF shielding than the other side.

The side facing away from Earth has a measurably higher gravitational pull, thus lava flows have less vertical travel. (Earth's tidal pull on the moon is far greater than the moon's tidal pull on Earth, and the moon moves our ocean tides many feet, so consider what Earth does to lava flows.)

The side facing away from the Earth has higher bombardment rates, thus "tilling" it's "soil" and removing surface evidence of volcanic activity.

it only works until DEIMOSgupta-megaSAT(tm) 2031 starts squirting EM all over the sky, followed by 40 "GIFTED" schoolchildrens' cubesats being sent to jupiter orbit as a sPACEX "altruistic" stunt

That and the far side's albedo is actually lighter than the near side's, on account the near side has more basaltic maria.

t. can't stand Gas Tyson but he's right on this one

In a crater of course.

>>15395673 (OP)

Where are the trans??

Place one radio telescope at the side of the moon, and you can use earth based radio telescopes in the mother of all long baselines.
