Re:Good reason for a mission to the Moon (Score 3, Insightful)

Or, you could just do the test here on earth at night. Then the whole mass of the earth is between your apparatus and the sun.

I guess the reason that doesn't work is that thermal effects (like those that may be causing the Allais results) change everything at night, and it's too hard to distinguish a legitimate anomaly from some-thermal-effect-we-didn't-think-of.

Still, there's no need to go to Jupiter or even the moon; as a satellite in a higher and higher earth orbit checks the effect, the earth effects will drop off as 1/r^2 while the anomaly should remain constant.