| ▲ | replatformradar 3 hours ago |
| About time!, I cant wait till we start putting large hardware on the dark side of the moon. That will make JST look like a toy. |
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| ▲ | margalabargala 3 hours ago | parent [-] |
| The far side of the moon is no more or less dark than the side we see. |
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| ▲ | somenameforme 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | It is from the Moon's perspective. On the visual spectrum the Earth is much larger and more reflective than the Moon. You're looking at something like 40x greater illumination during a 'full Earth' than you get during a full Moon on Earth. Earth is also extremely noisy in the radio spectrum for radio telescopes, while the Moon itself blocks most of all of that out on the far side. | | |
| ▲ | robocat 17 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Details for why ~40x: The Earth is 3.67 times larger in diameter in the lunar sky than the Moon appears in ours. Earth covers 13.5 times more visual sky area and is also about 3 times more reflective per unit area |
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