The terrain at the ALMA site
In the picture, a typical reddish rock formation along the road that goes up to the Chajnantor plateau, home of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Around and above the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF), located on the same road at 2900 m altitude, many grooves and gullies produced by the water flow, which was probably more abundant in the past, can be observed.
Credit:ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
About the Image
Id: | alma-hh-21 |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 14 June 2010, 17:55 |
Size: | 1920 x 2552 px |
About the Object
Name: | Chajnantor |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory |
Category: | ALMA |