Earth’s radio waves recorded from the Moon for the first time
From Earth.com:On February 22, a significant milestone in space exploration was achieved when the lunar lander Odysseus, developed byIntuitive Machines, successfully touched down near the Moon’s South Pole.This event is hailed as the “dawn of radio astronomy from the Moon” by Jack Burns, an astrophysicist at the ǸԹ.
The lander, which had to overcome various technical difficulties, deployed four antennas to recordradio wavesaround the lunar surface, marking a major achievement in the field.
Burns, a co-investigator on theRadio wave Observations at the Lunar Surface of the photo Electron Sheath(ROLSES) experiment aboard Odysseus, will provide updates on the data collected and discuss future plans for radio astronomy from the Moon at the244th Meeting of the American Astronomical Societyin Madison, Wisconsin.
“It was heroic for Intuitive Machines to land under these conditions, and to deploy our antennas, take some data and get that data back to Earth,” said Burns.
Also, from June 10, 2024 during the AAS meeting in Madison, WI with a report on the CLPS IM-1 mission from February and the initial results from the ROLSES-1 radio telescope.