NASA Space Tech Art Challenge: Imagine Tomorrow

1. Using A Lunar Long-Baseline Optical Imaging Interferometer as a base concept

2. Environtment: Moon Surface

3.It will give advantage to Astrophysics and Engineering advantage to incorporate many variable 4. Astronaut installing lunar long base-linenstalling

NASA's return to the Moon offers significant opportunities to take practical steps towards high impact scientific capabilities. One obvious candidate is extremely high-resolution interferometric imaging at visible and ultraviolet wavelengths. This can resolve the surfaces of stars, probe the inner accretion disks surrounding nascent stars and black holes, and begin the technical journey towards resolving surface features and weather patterns on the nearest exoplanets. A fully developed facility will be large and expensive, but it need not start that way. The technologies can be developed and tested with 2 or 3 small telescopes on short baselines. Once the technology is developed, baselines can be lengthened, larger telescopes can be inserted, and the number of telescopes can be increased. Each of these upgrades can be accomplished with minimal disruption to the rest of the system.