NASA reveals plan to create a radio telescope on the farside of the Moon

A lunar crater on the farside of the Moon could be turned into a new radio telescope resembling the Death Star from Star Wars, under new plans from NASA. Funding for the project has come from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Programme, designed to support potentially game changing projects. If the telescope is ever built it would be the largest open radio telescope in the solar system, according to the NASA team behind the idea. The space agency says putting a radio telescope on the Moon presents'tremendous advantages' compared to Earth-based or Earth-orbiting telescopes. In this image you can see the concept of a mesh of wire covering the inside of the crater which would be installed by robots.