'Frontiers' - Lunar Transient Phenomena

In the BBC Radio 4 science programme 'Frontiers', Andrew Luck-Baker investigates the mystery of fleeting patches of bright light over areas on the Moon.

Frontiers explores new ideas in science, meeting the researchers who see the world through fresh eyes and challenge existing theories - as well as hearing from their critics. Many such developments create new ethical and moral questions and Frontiers is not afraid to consider these.

A new project is deploying robotic telescopes to try and establish the truth about these lunar transient phenomena, or TLPs, with some believing them to be gas eruptions from lunar volcanoes or escaping via fractures made when the Moon was struck by an asteriod millions of years ago. Some even speculate that the gases could be useful to astronauts who may colonise the Moon in years to come.

Full details of this fascinating programme broadcast on
Radio 4 yesterday at 21:00 is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/frontiers.shtml

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