VLBA Antenna on top of Mauna Kea
![Mauna Kea VLBA station](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/gallery-images-largeVLBAMaunaKea_large.jpg)
This antenna of the Very Long Baseline Array sits on an extinct volcano known as Mauna Kea in Hawai’i. Data from each of the ten 25-meter radio telescopes of the VLBA are shipped to the Array Operations Center in Socorro, New Mexico to be digitally combined. The antennas are spread over a 5,351-mile long baseline from this antenna to its identical sibling on the island of St. Croix.
Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF
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