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From: sw@whuts.UUCP (WARMINK)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space
Subject: Re: Moon or Mars? Editorial in _Air & Space Smithsonian_
Message-ID: <4076@whuts.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 88 14:50:27 GMT
References: <47032@sun.uucp> <1290@hubcap.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Summary: dark side

In article <1290@hubcap.UUCP>, hubcap@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Marshall) writes:
: The same issue of Air&Space contains an article entitled "Resist the
: Pull of Mars" in which the author talks about "The dark far side of the
: moon..." being a good place to conduct " ...sensitive radio astronomy...
: without interference from terrestrial signals."
: Since this is a credible magazine, I should give the guy the benefit
: of the doubt and assume he is talking about the period of time that the
: moon appears full from the perspective of the earth, but that's not how
: it reads.

Surely the "dark far side" of the moon is always shielded from *terrestrial*
signals, regardless of whether it is actually dark or not at the time: it 
always faces away from the Earth.


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