Desert from above

This is a birds eye view of the Chajnantor plateau in Chile's Atacama Desert. This dry and difficult landscape is home to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) — a state-of-the-art telescope to study light from some of the coldest objects in the Universe.

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Id:birdseye
Type:Photographic
Release date:12 August 2013, 15:11
Size:1544 x 510 px

About the Object

Name:Chajnantor
Type:• Unspecified
• X - ALMA
• X - Chile

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