> The Moon is almost exactly 1000x closer to the earth than Mars[3], so I wonder if I used it for my mirror array instead if I could just put a station with 500

> The Moon is almost exactly 1000x closer to the earth than Mars[3], so I wonder if I used it for my mirror array instead if I could just put a station with 500 mirrors on it to accomplish the same thing. Plus, since the moon has synchronous rotation, the mirors would at least always be facing us. Assuming all the other massive difficulties got worked out, it'd be a good place for those mirrors.