Dramatic GoPro and drone footage shows it collapsing
It was decommissioned only last month due to concerns over its safety
It was also in James Bond's GoldenEye
Dramatic GoPro and drone footage shows it collapsing
It was decommissioned only last month due to concerns over its safety
It was also in James Bond's GoldenEye
A very sad sight!
I didn’t know about the collapse until you posted this, richietog .
Science News listed some of the achievements of the observatory:
“The observatory’s radar maps of the moon and Mars, for example, helped NASA pick landing sites for the Apollo (SN: 5/1/65) and Viking missions (SN: 7/17/76). And observations of the asteroid Bennu helped NASA plan its OSIRIS-REx mission to snag a sample from the space rock (SN: 10/21/20). Arecibo views of Saturn’s moon Titan have revealed hydrocarbon lakes on its surface (SN: 10/1/03).
“Beyond the solar system, Arecibo has observed mysterious flashes of radio waves from deep space, called fast radio bursts (SN: 2/7/20), and the distribution of galaxies in the universe. Arecibo has also been used for decades in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SN: 11/7/92), and it beamed the first radio message to aliens into space in 1974 (SN: 11/23/74).”