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  2. Lowell Observatory - Wikipedia

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    Lowell Observatory owns and operates the Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT, formerly the Discovery Channel Telescope) located near Happy Jack, Arizona. This 4.3-meter reflecting telescope is the fifth-largest telescope in the contiguous United States and one of the most powerful in the world, thanks to a unique housing that can accommodate up to ...

  3. Mapping of Venus - Wikipedia

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    During three orbit regimes, the surface images were transmitted back to the Earth. These three orbiting motions of the spacecraft are called mapping cycle 1, 2 and 3. During the mapping cycle 1 (left-looking) radar surface mapping on Venus (September 15, 1990 to May 15, 1991), around 70% of the Venusian surface was mapped by synthetic aperture ...

  4. Google Earth - Wikipedia

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    Google Earth is a web and computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery.The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles.

  5. Mount Graham International Observatory - Wikipedia

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    The first two telescopes, the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope and the Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope began operations in 1993. The Large Binocular Telescope , one of the world's largest and most powerful optical telescopes, began operations using mirrors independently in 2004, with joint operations between the two mirrors ...

  6. Visible-light astronomy - Wikipedia

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    A diagram of the electromagnetic spectrum with the Earth's atmospheric transmittance (or opacity) and the types of telescopes used to image parts of the spectrum.. Visible-light astronomy encompasses a wide variety of astronomical observation via telescopes that are sensitive in the range of visible light (optical telescopes).

  7. Groundbreaking telescope reveals first piece of new cosmic map

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    Zooming in on a portion of the Euclid telescope's map 600 times reveals the galaxies within the cluster Abell 3381, located 470 million light-years away from Earth.

  8. List of online map services - Wikipedia

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    T Map by SK Telecom; One Navi by KT corporation; Spain. Spanish official cartography website, including National Topographic Maps MTN50 (1:50,000 scale) and MTN25 (1:25,000 scale). SITPA-IDEAS, Asturias regional maps. Sweden. Eniro.se, also covers Denmark, Finland and Norway; Hitta.se; Thailand "Longdo Map", by Longdo.

  9. Lowell Discovery Telescope - Wikipedia

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    The Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT), formerly the Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT), is a 4.3 m (170 in) aperture telescope owned and operated by Lowell Observatory. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The LDT was built at a dark sky site in the Coconino National Forest near Happy Jack, Arizona . [ 3 ]