File:E-ELT and VLT vs Colosseum.jpg
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DescriptionE-ELT and VLT vs Colosseum.jpg |
English: After years of thorough site testing, Cerro Armazones is the chosen site for the construction of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). In the top of this mountain, a gigantic dome, Present and future observatories compared to a marvel from the past. The E-ELT dome will be 100 metres in diameter, about the size of the Colosseum in Rome, but atop a 3000-metre mountaintop. For comparison, each of the four VLT unit telescopes are 25 metres high, about the size of an eight-storey building.
This picture is based on a preliminary design for the E-ELT. |
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Source | http://www.eso.org/public/images/e-elt-and-vlt-vsosseum/ |
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Date and time of data generation | 13:56, 28 May 2013 |
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