News From the Field Arecibo Joins Global Network to Create 6,000-mile Telescope
June 11, 2008
| On May 22, Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico joined other telescopes in North America, South America, Europe and Africa in simultaneously observing the same targets, simulating a telescope more than 6,800 miles in diameter. The telescopes are all members of the Express Production Real-time e-VLBI Service project, and May 22 marked a live demonstration of their first four-continent, real-time, electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (e-VLBI) observations. Full story |
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