FarView
(concept for a low-frequency radio telescope on the far side of the Moon)
FarView is a concept to place a radio telescope on
the far side of the Moon.
It would use rovers to deploy 100,000 antennas over a 200 km² area,
covering a frequency-range of 5-40 MHz.
Such a telescope would have the advantage of elimination of
artificial radio frequency interference (RFI), which is especially beneficial to low frequency radio astronomy.
Among the applications would be a 21-cm experiment.
FARSIDE is a similar, less-ambitious proposal,
which is a pilot for FarView.
(telescope,Moon,NASA,radio,plan)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARSIDE_telescope#FarView
https://www.colorado.edu/project/lunar-farside/farside
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024AdSpR..74..528P/abstract
https://www.nasa.gov/general/farview-observatory-a-large-in-situ-manufactured-lunar-far-side-radio-array/
https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-might-put-a-huge-telescope-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon/
| WaveL | Freq | Photon
Energy | | |
| 7.5m | 40MHz | 165neV | begin | FarView |
| 60m | 5MHz | 21neV | end | FarView |
|
Referenced by page:
FARSIDE
Index