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The image shows a very tall, wide, dish-shaped device that is about three times as wide and as tall as the two-story dome that supports it. Four metal ladderlike extensions form a pyramidal structure topped by a box-like frame used for transmission and reception. The entire array is pointed skyward. In the background is a partly cloudy, blue sky above sagebrush-covered desert hills.

February 16, 2009

The image shows a very tall, wide, dish-shaped device that is about three times as wide and as tall as the two-story dome that supports it. Four metal ladderlike extensions form a pyramidal structure topped by a box-like frame used for transmission and reception. The entire array is pointed skyward. In the background is a partly cloudy, blue sky above sagebrush-covered desert hills.

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