Paranal: from mountain top to top observatory
Three different views of the Paranal site: in 1991, still as a remote mountain peak in the Atacama desert, with a few ESO containers in place; in 1994, at the end of the preparatory earthworks for the construction of the Unit Telescope enclosures; and in late 1999, with the virtually completed upper platform and the world's foremost optical/infrared observatory with four operational 8.2-m telescopes. The support structures for the movable VLTI Auxiliary Telescopes are also seen.
Credit:ESO
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Id: | eso0044a |
Type: | Collage |
Release date: | 20 December 2000 |
Related releases: | eso0044 |
Size: | 4000 x 1796 px |
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