I had the privilege of visiting Arecibo Radio Telescope from the outside I was driving higher on a Mountain Range and pulled over onto a Overlook and Viewed this jungle surrounded Radio Telescope , it was massive, very impressive. Largest of its kind in the world. It happen to be on a Easter Holiday so they were closed to the public on the inside. One day maybe I can visit in the inside. That would be Grand!
The Arecibo Observatory is a facility of the NSF operated under cooperative agreement by the University of Central Florida in alliance with Yang Enterprises, Inc. and UMET. The Planetary Radar Program is supported by NASA through the Near-Earth Object Observations Program. As the site of the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory attracts visitors of all ages and from many countries.
The newly refurbished and extended Science & Visitor Center, modernized exhibition space, and state-of-the-art auditorium welcome nearly 100,000 visitors a year and support Science Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) education at all levels throughout Puerto Rico and beyond.
Those who see the Arecibo radio telescope for the first time are astounded by the enormousness of the reflecting surface, or radio mirror. The huge “dish” is 305 m (1000 feet) in diameter, 167 feet deep, and covers an area of about twenty acres. The surface is made of almost 40,000 perforated aluminum panels, each measuring about 3 feet by 6 feet, supported by a network of steel cables strung across the underlying karst sinkhole.
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