Arecibo telescope Flashcards
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Built when?
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Built in 1963, it is the second-largest single-dish radio telescope in the world.
2
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Functions?
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Being the most powerful radar, scientists employed Arecibo to observe planets, asteroids and the ionosphere, making several discoveries over the decades, including finding prebiotic molecules in distant galaxies, the first exoplanets, and the first millisecond pulsar.
