EVALSO: A new high-speed data link to Chilean observatories
Thursday, November 4, 2010 - 14:50
in Astronomy & Space
Stretching 100 kilometers through Chile's harsh Atacama Desert, a newly inaugurated data cable is creating new opportunities at ESO's Paranal Observatory and the Observatorio Cerro Armazones. Connecting these facilities to the main Latin American scientific data backbone completes the last gap in the high-speed link between the observatories and Europe.