Atacama Large Millimeter Array
Picture Gallery

During these years, hundres of pictures have been taken at Chajnantor, San Pedro de Atacama, and surroundings. Here we want to put together some of these pictures.

If you have pictures that should be here, you are welcomed to send them and we will gladly publish them.

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Contents

Panoramic view of Chajnantor
Chajnantor during a February snow storm
ESO and NRAO containers side by side
Working together
The ESO instrumentation container
The ESO weather stations
US and European interferometers
The east side of the baseline
The east 183 GHz radiometer
A closer look of the 183 GHz radiometer with snow
A nice look of the instrument containers with snow
An inside look to the ESO container
A proud balloon-launching team
Inflating the balloon for a radiosonde launch
Preparing a radiosonde launch
Launching a radiosonde balloon
Another radiosonde launch
A view of the theodolite tracking antenna
Another view of the theodolite tracking antenna
Yet another view of the theodolite tracking antenna
Bryan Buttler doing some housekeping
Our good friend Denis Urbain
Enjoying a lagoon in the Altiplano
The desert can be a lonely place
A nice view of San Pedro de Atacama with Licancabur volcano in the background
A view of San Pedro's church
Interior of San Pedro's church
A view from San Pedro's cementery
Bell tower from Toconao