Flattening the Cerro Armazones
On Thursday 19 June 2014 the construction work for the ELT started with a first blast of the mountain top of Cerro Armazones. Since then numerous construction workers using heavy machinery are working in the Atacama Desert to flatten the top of the mountain for a platform large enough to host the ELT with its main mirror of 39.2-metres in diameter.
Credit:ESO/S. Rivera/G.Hüdepohl (atacamaphoto.com)
About the Video
| Id: | armazonesplatform2014 |
| Release date: | 7 October 2014, 03:07 |
| Duration: | 01 m 20 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | Atacama Desert, Cerro Armazones, Extremely Large Telescope |
| Category: | ELT |
