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English: Collapse of Arecibo telescope captured from control tower camera. Українська: Падіння та руйнування телескопу « Аресібо » 1 грудня 2020 року, Аресібо , Пуерто-Рико.
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Download QR code; In other projects ... Collapse of the Arecibo Telescope on 1 December 2020, ... Courtesy of the Arecibo Observatory, a U.S.National Science ...
The collapse of the Arecibo telescope is now inevitable. On November 19, the National Science Foundation, which oversees the observatory, announced the evacuation, and demolition, of what remains ...
The trouble at Arecibo began this August, when one of the auxiliary cables supporting the receiver platform slipped out of its socket atop Tower 4, one of the telescope's main support struts. Once ...
The observatory also includes a smaller radio telescope, a LIDAR facility, and a visitor center, which remained operational after the telescope's collapse. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The asteroid 4337 Arecibo is named after the observatory by Steven J. Ostro , in recognition of the observatory's contributions to the characterization of Solar System bodies.
The Arecibo Telescope was a 305 m (1,000 ft) spherical reflector radio telescope built into a natural sinkhole at the Arecibo Observatory located near Arecibo, Puerto Rico. A cable-mount steerable receiver and several radar transmitters for emitting signals were mounted 150 m (492 ft) above the dish .
The Arecibo message is an interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth that was sent to the globular cluster Messier 13 in 1974. It was meant as a demonstration of human technological achievement, rather than a real attempt to enter into a conversation with extraterrestrials.