Around the ALMA OSF

View of part of the ALMA base camp, near the Operations Support Facility (OSF), located at 2900 m altitude on the road to the Chajnantor plateau. Chajnantor is the home of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the largest astronomical project in existence and the largest radio telescope in the world. On the background, the unmistakable conic shape of the 5920m high Licancabur volcano.

Credit:

ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/A. Caproni (ESO)

About the Image

Id:aca_3112
Type:Photographic
Release date:6 May 2010, 10:47
Size:4288 x 2848 px

About the Object

Name:Atacama Desert, Chajnantor
Type:Solar System : Planet : Feature : Surface
Unspecified : Technology : Observatory
Category:ALMA

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