To Zoom in +, or Zoom out – use the zoom buttons or double click on the map to zoom in. To pan the map click on the respective arrow on the pan button or click on the map and move your mouse/pointer to drag the map around (pan). To find a location type: street or place, city, optional: state, country. The program is using the telescope as a primary source for its research. Research areas are Radar Astronomy studies, Radio Astronomy studies, and Atmospheric Science. Similar in design to a bridge, it hangs in midair on eighteen cables, which are strung from three reinforced concrete towers. Suspended 137 m (450 ft) above the reflector is the 900 ton platform. It is a spherical (not parabolic) reflector. The surface is made of almost 40,000 perforated aluminum panels, each measuring about 90 cm by 180 cm (3 ft by 6 ft), supported by a network of steel cables strung across the underlying karst sinkhole. It is the largest radio telescope in the world, the main reflector dish measures 330 meters (1000 feet) in diameter and covers an area of 18 acres, the size of ten football fields. The observatory's 305 m radio telescope is the largest single-aperture telescope ever constructed.
National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC). The very sensitive radio telescope is owned by the United States, and administered as a national facility by the Satellite view is showing the Arecibo Observatory located near the town of Arecibo in Puerto Rico. Held in dynamic suspension by thousands of cables, its high-precision surface consists of 40,000 of individually adjustable aluminum panels. _ Satellite View of Arecibo Observatoryīelow the telescope's primary dish, the 'dish' is actually a grid Home Earth Continents The Americas Puerto Rico Country Profile Google Earth Arecibo Observatory Map