Around the ALMA OSF
View of part of the ALMA base camp, near the Operations Support Facility (OSF), located at 2900 m altitude on the road to the Chajnantor plateau. Chajnantor is the home of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the largest astronomical project in existence and the largest radio telescope in the world. On the background, the unmistakable conic shape of the 5920m high Licancabur volcano.
Credit:
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/A. Caproni (ESO)
About the Image
| Id: | aca_3112 |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 6 May 2010, 10:47 |
| Size: | 4288 x 2848 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Atacama Desert, Chajnantor |
| Type: | • Solar System : Planet : Feature : Surface • Unspecified : Technology : Observatory • X - ALMA |
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