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Magdalena is a village in Socorro County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 926 in 2012. The Lady on the Mountain is a rock formation on Magdalena Peak overlooking Magdalena. Spanish soldiers saw the profile of a woman on the west face of the peak. A priest with them was reminded of a similar peak in Spain called La Sierra de Maria Magdalena, so he called the New Mexico one La Sierra de Magdalena. The pass to the south of the peak became known as Magdalena Gap, and when a town grew up it received the same name.Magdalena continues to be a ranching community while strengthening its art, astronomy and geology venues. The reopening of the Magda...
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  • 2. Very Large Array New Mexico
    The Very Long Baseline Array is a system of ten radio telescopes which are operated remotely from their Array Operations Center located in Socorro, New Mexico, as a part of the Long Baseline Observatory . These ten radio antennas work together as an array that forms the longest system in the world that uses very long baseline interferometry. The longest baseline available in this interferometer is about 8,611 kilometres .The construction of the VLBA began in February 1986 and it was completed in May 1993. The first astrometrical observation using all ten antennas was carried out on May 29, 1993. The total cost of building the VLBA was about $85 million. The array is funded by the National Science Foundation, and costs about $10 million a year to operate.Each receiver in the VLBA consists o...
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