The terrain at the ALMA site

In the picture, a typical reddish rock formation along the road that goes up to the Chajnantor plateau, home of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Around and above the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF), located on the same road at 2900 m altitude, many grooves and gullies produced by the water flow, which was probably more abundant in the past, can be observed.

Credit:

ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)

About the Image

Id:alma-hh-21
Type:Photographic
Release date:14 June 2010, 17:55
Size:1920 x 2552 px

About the Object

Name:Chajnantor
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory
Category:ALMA

Image Formats

Large JPEG
1.6 MB
Screensize JPEG
564.9 KB

Zoomable


Wallpapers

1024x768
359.6 KB
1280x1024
576.6 KB
1600x1200
809.4 KB
1920x1200
971.2 KB
2048x1536
1.1 MB