ALMA maintenance
Some maintenance work being carried out on one of ALMA's antennas, coincidentally helping also to illustrate the size of these telescopes. There are 66 in total, with the dishes on 54 of them measuring 12 metres in diameter, and the rest, 7 metres.
Credit:Enrico Sacchetti/ESO
About the Image
| Id: | alma_009-cc |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 3 July 2015, 15:55 |
| Size: | 4912 x 7360 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
| Category: | ALMA |
