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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