Radio telescopes are incredible pieces of technology. They allow scientists to probe deep into space and gather data from billions of years ago. They're powerful, but they're also quite large, and that makes them somewhat of a pain to build. As we recently saw with the Arecibo observatory, they are not immune to failure, and that telescope, in particular, became a victim of gravity itself.
Constructing a radio telescope requires a massive amount of space to build the colossal dish. The concave structures take up a lot of room — Arecibo sat on 118 acres of land, for example — and building the dish structure itself takes a long time. But there's a place where humans have traveled where huge concave dish-like structures already exist naturally, and NASA thinks it might make the perfect spot for a brand new radio telescope that could peer deeper into the Universe than ever before. The place? The Moon.
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