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sabot
07-10-2005, 09:12 PM
The most famous Observatory in the world and located in puerto rico.

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/9206/arecibo2di.jpg

An picture from the ground :

http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/5486/arecibosol1dr.jpg
Mickey
07-10-2005, 09:22 PM
That's awesome - too bad Google has it in low-res. If you can find a clear sattelite image of it, you could create an "image overlay" of it in Google Earth and then submit it to the file archive - that would look great!
Appletom
07-10-2005, 09:24 PM
Didn't they film a scene from the movie "Contact" (with Jodie Foster) here?
sabot
07-10-2005, 09:37 PM
Didn't they film a scene from the movie "Contact" (with Jodie Foster) here?

Yes, part of the movie takes place at arecibo.

It's a part of The SETI program, too.