I'm here to talk to you about
an exciting radio telescope that is going to be placed on the moon.
It is called ROLSES
It stands for Radio Wave
Observations from the Lunar Surface of the Photoelectron Sheath.
It's a mouthful, but actually it's a very simple instrument and it's
going to detect all kinds of radio emission that is falling
on the moon.
Right now, it is close to solar maximum.
So the sun is producing
a lot of coronal mass ejections and radio emission associated with them.
And we can detect these radio bursts from the Sun. Jupiter can produce
radio emission in this wavelength that we are interested in.
And we can observe Jupiter.
Even the Milky Way galaxy produces a low level of radio emission.
We can detect those radio emissions.
We also produce a lot of radio emission by manmade transmitters from Earth.
And this radio interference can reach the moon.
Characterization of the radio environment of the moon is very important.
That's not been completely done.
And therefore, ROLSES will be able to contribute in
identifying various sources of radio emission on the Sun.
If you are setting up an observatory on the moon,
we should know what kind of radio interference we get back.
Commercial lunar payload
services, NASA and American companies working together.