While not an official full-fledged NASA mission, the concept of the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope, or LCRT, has been in development for years. The project recently received a $500,000 boost upon entering the second phase of NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program.
The lunar telescope would involve robots hanging wire mesh within a crater on the moon’s far side to create a radio telescope. Picture the famed yet now defunct Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, but on the moon.
The telescope could measure radio waves from a few hundred million years after the Big Bang that created our…
