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

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Id:g0021006-final-cc
Type:Fotografisch
Publicatiedatum:19 september 2016 12:22
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Naam:Cerro Armazones, Extremely Large Telescope
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory
Categorie:ELT

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