Video of the collapse of the telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 12/5/2020, 9:59 pm
On December 1st the telescope collapsed. The telescope had been decommissioned prior to that due to cable breaks. In case you haven't seen it yet, here is the video of the collapse. The second half of the video is from a drone they were flying which caught on camera the cable break that resulted in the entire structure collapsing. It's a really unfortunate to lose such a facility. I really hope they are able to rebuild it in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssHkMWcGat4


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Telescope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory










China has an even larger telescope like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope

When the initial cable break occurred at Arecibo over the summer I had seen that China also had a facility like this.

More pictures:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=Five-hundred-meter+Aperture+Spherical+Telescope

The picture at Wikipedia gives a really good ideal of the size of that one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope#/media/File:FAST_under_construction,_took_from_rim..jpg
If you zoom in you can see some tiny structures with doors and you can see how small they are in comparison to the structure as it was being constructed.
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Video of the collapse of the telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico - Chris in Tampa, 12/5/2020, 9:59 pm
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