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Alison Peck and Al Wooten of ALMA Radio Telescope Project

The Gigantic ALMA Radio Telescope in Chile

01/21/2013 | 28:50

Guests

Alison Peck, Former ALMA Commissioning Scientists Team Leader, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Al Wooten, North American Project Scientist and head of the North American ALMA Science Center, National Radio Astronomy Observatory

ALMA will make sharper images than the Hubble Space Telescope, yet it’s a radio telescope! ALMA scientists Alison Peck and Al Wooten tell us about this array of 66 huge dishes in Chile’s Atacama desert.

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