ESOcast 56: Gentle Giants in the Desert
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For our newest ESOcast, we pose this puzzle: how do you move a 100-tonne giant ALMA antenna 30 kilometres up onto the oxygen-starved Chajnantor Plateau, 5000 metres above sea level and finish the job with millimetre precision?
Credit:
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO).
Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser and Luis Calçada.
Editing: Herbert Zodet.
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Javier Perez Barbuzano and Herbert Zodet.
Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa.
Music: Toomas Erm.
Footage and photos: ESO, Christoph Malin (christophmalin.com) and ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/NRAO/General Dynamics C4 Systems.
Directed by: Herbert Zodet.
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.
About the Video
| Id: | esocast56a |
| Release date: | 29 April 2013, 15:00 |
| Related announcements: | ann13036 |
| Duration: | 07m 16s |
About the Object
| Name: | Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array |
| Type: | • X - ALMA • X - ESOcast |
