LOFAR

LOFAR Radio Telescope, Holland

LOFAR is a new kind of radio telescope. This site contains the bulk of the antennae, but there are other smaller sites scattered around western Europe. They are all linked to a super computer which grinds the signals from all the sites into . . . something. This circular island is about 1200 feet in diameter. At first I thought this might be a picture of an meteorite impact crater, but evidently it is just the Dutch trying to make a dry spot out of a swamp.

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