Image: Super dry day at ESO Paranal
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 07:30
in Astronomy & Space
On 5 July 2012, a plume of Antarctic air descended over the European Southern Observatory's Paranal site in Chile. The home of the Very Large Telescope, Paranal is 2635 m above sea level and is almost always one of the best sites in the world for optical and near-infrared astronomy.