VLT mirror shipped to Chile
This image shows one of the 8.2-metre Very Large Telescope primary mirrors being loaded onto a ship at the harbour of Le Havre in France, in October 1997, en route to Chile.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
Id: | ship-m1-2-cc |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 19 March 2012, 17:50 |
Size: | 4194 x 2800 px |
About the Object
Name: | Very Large Telescope |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Category: | Paranal |
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