Dark Side of the Moon Monitoring

[p1879]

Wonder what SDR(s) are in this Lunar package to be sent to the Dark Side?

Listening to the radio on the far side of the moon

LuSEE-Night will demonstrate whether an experiment to search for ancient radio signals can survive the moon’s unforgiving environment.

www.symmetrymagazine.org

 

[prcguy]

Wonder what SDR(s) are in this Lunar package to be sent to the Dark Side?

Listening to the radio on the far side of the moon

LuSEE-Night will demonstrate whether an experiment to search for ancient radio signals can survive the moon’s unforgiving environment.

www.symmetrymagazine.org

2nd gen RTL dongle.

 

[merlin]

I hardly think there would be much EM on the dark side. Maybe some reflected signals from other planets or some interstellar noise.
Anything SDR would be back end to ultra low noise amps/preamps.

 

[wtp]

so .... why two shadows ?

 

[dickie757]

so .... why two shadows ?

I read the article three times, but don't know where you came up with this?

One shadow for Earth, then when night, shadow for Sun and Earth.

 

[wtp]

don't read, look at the picture. the pod has two shadows.

 

[a417]

don't read, look at the picture. the pod has two shadows.

Those stages have duplicate suns.

 

[dickie757]

Huh, I guess the artist got confused.

So, they are going to moon to see if anything stands out from the norm? Do they have any data from previous missions to go on?

 

[wtp]

"i need more light" does not mean another put up another sun.
either AI of CGI, people need to think about what it should look like.
but at least the article did say how they were going to get the data back to earth.

 

[p1879]

SpaceAustralia describes the receiver thus:

"The LuSEE-Night lander is a low-frequency radio astronomy pathfinder demonstrator program, consisting of a 4-channel, 50 MHz bandwidth Nyquist base-band receiver system and 2 orthogonal dipole antennas that measure 6-metres tip-to-tip."

 

[p1879]

A reference encountered on the net indicates the LuSee Receiver or radio frequency spectrophotometer is a refinement on the two-channel instrument described in this publication:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016JA023345