Lining up ELT mirror segments for shipping

In a warehouse setting, several white, large containers with the ESO logo — four stars around the letters E, S, O on a blue background — sit on a concrete floor. Some of the boxes have open lids with plastic sheets sticking out. Behind them, to the back left of the image, a few people stand around. A large white wall with black supports fills the top half of the image.

This picture, taken inside a storage facility near Poitiers, France, shows the first segments of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope main mirror packaged into individual boxes, ready for shipping. In total, 798 mirror segments will comprise the 39-metre diameter mirror, with 133 additional segments also being produced. On this occasion, only the first 18 were in the process of being shipped.

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Identificazione:eso2319d
Tipo:Fotografico
Data di rilascio:Lunedì 18 Dicembre 2023 14:00
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Nome:Extremely Large Telescope
Tipo:Unspecified : Technology
Categoria:ELT

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