First VLT mirror touchdown
Touch-down for the first VLT mirror in Chile. The Transport Box with the fragile mirror inside is lowered ever so softly onto the dock in Antofagasta.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
| Id: | eso9731b |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 12 December 1997 |
| Related releases: | eso9731 |
| Size: | 1014 x 725 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Antofagasta, Mirror, Very Large Telescope |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
| Category: | Paranal |
