 pathfinder. Kaja Rotermund, a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley Lab, said: "If you're on the far side of the moon, you have a pristine, radio-quiet environment from which you can try to detect this signal from the Dark Ages. "LuSEE-Night is a mission showing whether we can make these kinds of observations from a location that we've never been in, and also for a frequency range that we've never been able to observe." Rotermund added: "We're looking for this very tiny dip that is potentially the Dark Ages signal... We can learn a lot about the cosmology that's being governed during this time period in a way that is unaff){kind=link}
Waves from the ‘Cosmic Dark Ages’ will be detected from moon’s dark side, it is hoped. A small radio telescope funded by NASA will be sent by scientists to the moon in 2025
A mission to detect radio waves from an era known as the ‘Cosmic Dark Ages’ from the dark side of the moon is now planned with a small telescope expected to rocket to space.
A NASA-funded small radio telescope is set to blast off to the moon’s far side in 2025 to track waves from 13.4 million years ago. The project involves scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Brookhaven National Laboratory and is also being funded by the US Department of Energy.
The project will study the existence of the universe sometime after the Big Bang and will use the far side of the moon because it is far away from the noisy Earth bustling with radio waves of its own in an atmosphere that blocks out some signals.
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