The University of Colorado Boulder and Lunar Resources Inc. have just won NASA funding to study the possibility of building a radio telescope on the far side of the Moon. The project, called FarView , would harvest building materials from the Lunar surface itself, and use robotic rovers to construct a massive, intricate network of wires and antennas across 400 square kilometers.
Radio telescopes work best in isolation. On Earth, if radio telescope operators want to ‘hear’ the sky without interference, they need to establish enormous exclusion zones around the telescope where cellphones, wi-fi, and even the spark-plugs from gasoline cars are banned. FarView proposes to put a telescope in the quietest place we can think of, away from Earthlings and our noisy gadgets.
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Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn line up with the moon this week
On Wednesday, March 10, plan to get up early to see the planets and the moon line up. Just before sunrise (about 6:30 a.m. local time), look just above the southeastern horizon and you will see a few night lights shining through the pre-dawn haze. And the waning crescent moon will be hanging out with them, too.
The three lights are, from left to right, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn. Jupiter will be, by far, the brightest of the three and will also be the last one visible as the sun rises. Mercury will be lowest in the sky and Saturn the faintest of the trio.
The moon has a tail that sends beams across Earth, researchers say | Fox News
Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine weighs in on future of the space agency on 'FOX News @ Night'
The moon has a " comet-like " tail made of millions of sodium atoms, researchers reported this week.
While the lunar surface is hit by solar wind, UV photons and meteorids, atoms liberated by the impact are pushed by light pressure into "a long comet‐like tail" opposite the sun, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets .
OnePlus Reaches For The Moon, Is Jimi Hendrix Next?
"For several months now, the OnePlus imaging team has been collaborating very closely with Hasselblad R&D – spending countless hours working together to re-imagine and re-define the approach to color accuracy on OnePlus smartphones. In fact, we have created an entirely new color solution – Natural Color Calibration with Hasselblad – that will now serve as our new standard for color calibration for future OnePlus smartphone camera systems."
Talking about improvements in camera technology is one of the cornerstones of any modern smartphone's launch; OnePlus is no different to the rest. At the flagship end of the market many of the technical specifications are within a few percentage points of each other; the visual element is one that can be used to easily demonstrate the progress a smartphone manufacturer has made.
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Inside the Alabama stop on Blue Origin's journey to the moon - al.com
A Blue Origin employee stands beside a "pathfinder" model of the company's planned lunar lander at the company's plant in Huntsville, Ala. Blue Origin is leading a team competing to be part of the space agency's return to the moon but is also planning its own commercial future there.
Blue Origin's rocket engine plant in Huntsville, Ala., is the size of three city blocks. Objects on one side can be larger – much larger - than they appear from the other side.
Sharing space: '60 Minutes' spotlights NASA's women reaching for the moon - al.com
Crews load a Space Launch System Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter aboard a barge for delivery to NASA's Stennis Space Center. NASA has asked Huntsville, Ala., contractor Teledyne Brown Engineering to build two more of the adapters for the next two SLS rockets.
The CBS News program '60 Minutes' turned its national spotlight on NASA's Artemis program to send the first woman and next man to the moon, and the focus was on the women leading the way to get there.
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Watch the Moon and 3 Planets Line Up at Dawn
It's easy enough to spot the moon, but it can be much harder to figure out which of the dots in the night sky are the planets. You see a particularly bright object and wonder, if it's a planet, a particularly luminous star, or perhaps, a plane. Well, over the next three days, identifying the planets will be considerably simpler than usual, thanks to the fact that just before dawn, the moon will line up with Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn. Here's what to know.
Jupiter, the most brilliant morning planet, outshines Saturn by some 12 times and Mercury by 7 times. Although Mercury is a touch brighter than Saturn, Saturn will probably be the easier of these two worlds to see, as Saturn rises first, followed by Jupiter and then Mercury. Mercury is buried most deeply in the glare of morning twilight, but try aiming binoculars at Jupiter to glance at Mercury below Jupiter.
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NASA is considering a radio telescope on the far side of the Moon - https://t.co/iHgBN6MpFD https://t.co/AK2soJnEjQ fcain (from Courtenay, British Columbia) Fri Mar 05 07:15:03 +0000 2021
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