ALMA and desert ice

The harsh environment of the Atacama Desert is arid and cold. Rain rarely falls, but sometimes snow comes for a long winter. At an altitude higher than 5000 metres in the Chajnantor Plateau, remnants of the previous winter's snow lays near the antennae of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) as a man looks up in awe at the size of one antenna.

Credit:

D. Kordan/ESO

About the Image

Id:dsc-7076-pano-cc
Type:Photographic
Release date:9 October 2017, 11:06
Size:5300 x 4619 px

About the Object

Name:Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope
Category:ALMA

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