NASA has made the first radio telescope observations on the moon

The first profitable use of a radio telescope on the moon has kicked off a brand new period of astronomy that would shed gentle on the cosmic darkish ages – regardless of a bumpy touchdown.

NASA’s ROLSES-1 (Radio wave Observations at the Lunar Surface of the photoElectron Sheath) telescope was mounted on the Odysseus lander, an Intuitive Machines spacecraft that made the first ever non-public lunar touchdown final yr. While Odysseus was the first such spacecraft to outlive a touchdown, it tipped on its aspect, rendering most of the tools on…