A 7-metre antenna for ALMA
One of the MELCO 7-metre antennas for the ALMA compact array. ALMA is a single telescope of revolutionary design, composed of a main array of fifty 12-metre antennas and an additional compact array of four 12-metre and twelve 7-metre antennas. ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is the largest astronomical project in existence and the most powerful submillimetre-wavelength radio telescope in the world.
Credit:ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/A. Caproni (ESO)
About the Image
Id: | aca_3115 |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 6 May 2010, 10:47 |
Size: | 1232 x 854 px |
About the Object
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Category: | ALMA |