The best is yet to come
This image shows the newly flattened Cerro Armazones site, which engineers levelled with in a series of blasts in June 2014. They aimed to remove a total of 220 000 cubic metres of rock for the 300 x 150 metres platform, in preparation of the construction of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).
Credit:M. Struik (CERN)/ESO
About the Image
| Id: | g0021006-final-cc |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 19 September 2016, 12:22 |
| Size: | 4000 x 2250 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Cerro Armazones, Extremely Large Telescope |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory |
| Category: | ELT |
