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Plateau of Chajnantor, Chile

author: S.Guisard/Novapix

reference: o-cha01-01010

Image Size 300 DPI: 54 * 16 cm

5100m high Chajnantor plateau in the Atacama Desert (Chile). Several telescopes are located here and the European southern observatory is building here its giant interferometric network ALMA. Scorpius constellation is rising above horizon. June 2008

Keywords for this photo:

2008 - ALMA - ANDES - APEX - ASTRONOMY - ATACAMA - CHAJNANTOR - CHILE - DESERT - MILLIMETER - NIGHT - OBSERVATORY - PANORAMA - POSTER - RADIO - RADIOTELESCOPE - SCORPIUS - SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE - TWILIGHT -