Today's adventure took us to the VLA (Very Large Array) Radio Telescope facility 50 miles West of Socorro New Mexico.
If any of you saw the 1997 movie Contact that starred Jodie Foster you have an idea what a VLA is. Here's a link https://public.nrao.edu/telescopes/vla that explains them in more debt if you're interested.
While we took the self-guided tour we were standing under a telescope as it was being repositioned which was awesome. The reposition the telescopes every 6 hrs. so we were lucky to be there at just the right time.
It was a great day and I'm so glad we got to see the VLA. Cheers and Happy Trails.
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