NASA performed its inaugural radio telescope observation on the moon

The first successful use of the lunar radio telescope began a new era of astronomy, which could shed light on the dark ages of space, despite its bumpy landings.

NASA’s ROLSES-1 (observation of radio waves on the lunar surface of the photoelectron sheath) telescope was mounted on the Odysseus Lander, the intuitive mechanical spacecraft that created its first private Luna Landing last year. Odysseus was the first spacecraft to survive the landing, but it tilted its side and placed most of its equipment…