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The Very Large Array
1980
Socorro County, New Mexico
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Twenty-seven dishes, each 82 feet across and weighing 230 tons, moved along railway tracks into Y-shaped arrays up to 22 miles wide so they work as one enormous telescope. The Plains of San Agustin were chosen for their altitude, dryness and radio silence. It is where Jodie Foster's astronomer first hears the signal in Contact, headphones on among the dishes.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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