This is

CBS, I am the world. I'm John Bachelor. Hotel Mars, episode N. David Livingston, Dr. Space is here. He's of the space show, my colleague and co-pilot,

we're headed to the moon. In a particular part of the moon, near the South Pole,

I take you back to earlier this year, February 15th. At 105 a.m. Eastern

Standard Time on Thursday, February 15th writes the NASA report, Intuitive Machines Nova Sea Lander, launched on a SpaceX

Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

At approximately 153 AM, the Lander deployed from the Falcon 9 second stage.

Teams confirmed it made communications contact with the company's Mission Operations

Center in Houston.

The spacecraft is stable and receiving solar power.

On board that spacecraft is a joy, radio astronomy.

David Livingston and I welcome Jack Burns,

Professor Jack Burns, emeritus of astrophysics

and physics, Vice President Emeritus for Academic

Affairs and Research, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy at the University of

Colorado in Boulder.

Professor, a very good evening to you.

Onboard Nova Sea Lander was what we're about to discuss the radio telescope.

First of all, what is radio astronomy?

Good evening to you, Professor. John, great to be with you this

evening. So radio astronomy is the study of naturally occurring radiation at radio wavelengths.

So it's a different part of the spectrum from what you usually think of

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