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September 4, 2011 11:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8h8BVO84BBE/Cryogenic-Truck-Services-Remote-Telescopes
Cryogenic Truck Services Remote Telescopes
coondoggie writes "Moving a 115-ton telescope down a mountain and 40 miles on the back of a humongous truck to a servicing facility is no task for the timid. It's a job the caretakers of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international astronomy facility , no longer have to worry about thanks to a new custom designed truck that can transport and service ALMA's temperature-sensitive astronomical equipment without removing a telescope from the working array at 16,500 feet in the Chilean mountains." 
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