Vizcachas
Image of the desert near Vizcachas, a site located in Chile, not very far from the ESO La Silla Observatory, home to the 3.6-metre telescope and its very successful exoplanet hunter HARPS. The E-ELT programme office has studied half a dozen potential sites for the future E-ELT observatory, which, with its 40-metre-class diameter, will be the world’s biggest eye on the sky. Various aspects need to be considered in the site selection process. Vizcachas was on the E-ELT Site Selection Advisory Committee’s final short list for the recommended site.
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ESO
About the Image
| Id: | dsc_0074 |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 31 March 2010, 17:05 |
| Size: | 3008 x 2000 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Atacama Desert |
| Type: | • Solar System : Planet : Feature : Surface • X - Solar System |
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