Four Japanese antennas for ALMA
Three 12-metre and one 7-metre MELCO antennas at the Japanese assembly facility, near the main ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF), located at 2900m altitude on the road to the Chajnantor plateau. 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 is currently under construction on the Chajnantor plateau, at an elevation of 5000m, in the Chilean Andes.
Credit:
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/A. Caproni (ESO)
About the Image
| Id: | aca_3108 |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 6 May 2010, 10:47 |
| Size: | 4288 x 2848 px |
About the Object
| Type: | • Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope • X - ALMA |
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