NASA decided to allocate a budget for a new radio telescope study to collect information from space. A project called the Moon Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) was included in NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts Program (NIAC). For the project included in the program, it has been decided to allocate a first level budget for now. The Moon Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) will be installed on a large crater in the part of the Moon, which is known as the dark side of the Moon, far from Earth. A wire mesh with a diameter of 1 km is planned for the radio telescope, which will be placed by robots that can climb the walls of the crater. In other words, a large crater on the dark side of the Moon will be transformed into a 1 km diameter spider web and turned into a radio telescope. The telescope on the moon will collect signals that radio telescopes on Earth cannot receive Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay, a robotic technology expert at NASA’s Jet Development Laboratory in California, said that the radio telescope to be installed on the dark side of the Moon will provide far greater advantages than telescopes on earth. Some of the signals coming from Earth to Earth are sent back to space by the atmosphere. Due to this effect of the atmosphere, radio telescopes on earth cannot receive some signals. A telescope to be installed on the dark side of the Moon will be able to reach these signals before it reaches Earth. On the other hand, the installation of the huge radio telescope on the dark side of the Moon will also protect the telescope from signals on Earth. In this way, the telescope will only be able to collect signals from space. NASA’s idea of placing a radio telescope on the dark side of the Moon is actually not new. Scientists from the space agency were saying that the telescope that could be installed on the Moon for several years would be an important scientific study. Despite all the insistence of scientists, the decision to establish the radio telescope was made after China successfully placed a communication satellite that would operate on the dark side of the Moon. Now, with the decision to provide the first level budget, developers from NASA will be able to continue their work.
