Sunset at Chajnantor

Sun is setting over the stunning Mars-like landscape of the Chajnantor plateau, located at 5000 metres altitude in the Chilean Andes, some 50 km away from San Pedro de Atacama. In the picture, taken from a nearby 5300-metre hill known as “Cerro Chico” (literally, the “Little Mountain”) towards the south-east, the APEX telescope is visible. APEX is a 12-metre antenna, operating at millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths and it is the pathfinder experiment for ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, currently under construction at the same site.

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ESO

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Id:apex-hh-sunset
Type:Fotografisch
Publicatiedatum:14 juni 2010 17:21
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Naam:Atacama Desert, Chajnantor
Type:Solar System : Planet : Feature : Surface
Unspecified : Technology : Observatory
Categorie:APEX

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