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World’s largest astronomy camera to be installed in Chile

The largest digital astronomy camera with a resolution above 3.2 gigapixels and weighing almost three tonnes will be installed in the Chilean Atacama Desert, Reuters reports photo: www.reuters.com The components needed to assemble the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which includes a ground-based telescope and camera, were transported by several vehicles to the top of Cerro Pachón Mountain on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert, some 565km north of Santiago. “Everything that we needed for operations ...

14.06.2024
Chile , camera , space , observatory

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