PARKES

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CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope

  • CSIRO's Parkes telescope is a 64-m diameter parobolic dish used for radio astronomy.
  • ​The telescope was built in 1961.
  • The telescope is now ten thousand times more sensetive then when comissioned in 1961
  • The telescope weighs 1000 tonnes
  • The telescope only receives signals from space,never sends them
  • The telescope works day and night,and through rain and cloud