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  • Written by caffeine_induced78 on Jun 9, 2003
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    • This and Roswell pretty much makes New Mexico the center of extraterrestrial happenings in the US. Sitting south of US hgwy. 60 in the high desert it is known simply as the VLA (Very Large Array). The more official name is the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Until you get up near one of the individual dishes you can't grasp the scale. The dishes are wheeled out on railroad tracks and stand about 10 stories high. I love time lapse photography and I could not help but think of a radio image of the sky moving over these probes in time lapse. Why do I place surreal images into my mind? Because they are beautiful images to create. New Mexico is the place for that. The VLA is about 30 miles west of Socorro on US hgwy. 60.

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    pepples46 Sat Jun 26, 2004 06:18 UTC
     I bet it is a great place for having a beer or two    		ephobius Thu Jan 8, 2004 08:13 UTC
     I went there looking for Jodie Foster and only found cows roaming around those metal mushrooms! That's surreal! :-))
    Ivan_Jimenez Wed Dec 10, 2003 22:06 UTC
     That VLA station featured in Contact with Jodie Foster.. is that the one?    		shdw100 Tue Jul 1, 2003 13:43 UTC
     What a kewl page with great insights! New Mexico is surreal (I was born there! Does that make me surreal? LOL)
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