Building a Lunar Far-Side Radio Observatory
The advantages of the most radio-quiet place in the Solar System
Jack O. Burns
Professor Emeritus
Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
University of Colorado Boulder
Principal Investigator, FARSIDE concept
About the Lecture
This lecture will discuss why the Moon’s far side is uniquely valuable for low-frequency radio astronomy, including its shielding from terrestrial radio-frequency interference, observations that cannot be made from Earth, the cosmic “dark ages,” solar and planetary radio science, and the engineering of large distributed antenna arrays on the lunar surface.
About the Speaker
Forthcoming.