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Flying Saucer or ALMA dish?

A 12-meter North American ALMA dish is raised from its construction platform by a ceiling crane inside the Vertex Assembly Building at the ALMA Operations Support Facility in northern Chile. It was then driven to and lowered onto a telescope base. From below the rounded shape of the dish resembles a fly saucer.

Credit: T. Burchell, NRAO/AUI/NSF

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