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<blockquote data-quote="Jefe" data-source="post: 13142093" data-attributes="member: 41358"><p>Took a tour of the Steward Mirror Lab which is under the University of Arizona Football Stadium. Most people have no clue its there or what it being worked on. This is 1 of the 7 mirrors they are building for the Giant Magellan Telescope that is being built for Chile. It will be 10x more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope. It is the only lab in the world of its kind. The tour guide stated 1 of these mirrors would allow you to read a newspaper over 5 miles away. Here they are buffing the surface down to prep it for the aluminum coating. There's about 20 tons of glass in this piece alone, the glass comes from Japan. The project for the mirrors alone is well over $25mil. Each piece will be driven to Houston and put on a ship bound for Chile.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]471372[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.gmto.org/Resources/Still-GMT-S22-medium.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jefe, post: 13142093, member: 41358"] Took a tour of the Steward Mirror Lab which is under the University of Arizona Football Stadium. Most people have no clue its there or what it being worked on. This is 1 of the 7 mirrors they are building for the Giant Magellan Telescope that is being built for Chile. It will be 10x more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope. It is the only lab in the world of its kind. The tour guide stated 1 of these mirrors would allow you to read a newspaper over 5 miles away. Here they are buffing the surface down to prep it for the aluminum coating. There's about 20 tons of glass in this piece alone, the glass comes from Japan. The project for the mirrors alone is well over $25mil. Each piece will be driven to Houston and put on a ship bound for Chile. [ATTACH=full]471372[/ATTACH] [IMG]http://www.gmto.org/Resources/Still-GMT-S22-medium.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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