WASHINGTON — Space researchers have proposed building a network of radio antennas on the far side of the moon, according to a NASA funded report.<br /><br />NASA says that the array—named the Farside antennas—will allow the agency to monitor the closest stellar systems more easily.<br /><br />The paper's lead authors professors Jack Burns and Gregg Hallinan suggest deploying 128 antennas by using a lunar rover.<br /><br />The antennas will be tethered to a base station that supplies central data processing, power and communications across the array's 10 kilometer span.<br /><br />The Farside base then will use NASA's proposed Gateway Station to transmit signals back to Earth.<br /><br />Habitable exoplanets closest to the solar system would possess magnetospheres that the antennas will be able to detect from the moon's far side, where there is limited sky noise.<br /><br />The study states that the antennas could also sound the moon's subsurface.
