ALMA antenna in detail
This image presents one of the ALMA antennas in detail. Like most of ALMA’s dishes it has a diameter of 12 metres. Each dish plays the same role as the mirror of an optical telescope: it collects radiation coming from distant astronomical objects, and focuses it into a detector that measures the radiation.
Credit:A. Caproni/ESO
About the Image
| Id: | aca_3918-cc |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 11 November 2014, 14:55 |
| Size: | 4288 x 2848 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
| Category: | ALMA |
