Colorado Balloon Things
Thursday, 2nd June 2005 by Alex Turnbull
Doug described these things in Colorado as 'deep space satellites'. Can anyone confirm what they are? (Please, please don't say 'weather balloons'...) 😉
Update: Turns out that these are actually two parabolic dish antennas belonging to the Deep Space Exploration Society located in the Table Mountain Antenna Fields Site.
Thanks to everyone is the comments for clearing that up 🙂
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They are the two parabolic dish antennas of the Deep Space Exploration Society. Lots of photo’s on their web site: http://www.deep-space.info/index.shtml
They’re smack inside the “Table Mountain Antenna Fields Site” according to Google Maps. So I’d guess they’re … antennas!
Satellites are, of course, things in orbit. These are a little close to the ground to be in orbit.
pooms is right…heh theyre about 5 minutes away from my house
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Is there a posting of the Very Large Array antenna farm (I believe it’s in New Mexico) on the site?
Last time I looked, the images of the VLA area were too low resolution to see the site.
But if you like big radio telescopes, you can see the dish at Arecibo in Puerto Rico here: Arecibo, PR
nice ground view of the two dishes
Timhogs: I found the Very Large Array. Doesn’t look like much.
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Weather balloons. 😉
There appears to be another parabolic dish antenna on the page, ‘Griffith Observatory, L.A.’ within this site. Just to the right of the observatory.
Those are called radio telescopes. They give a 3D reading of deep space quasars and junk.
Closer view: http://terraserver.microsoft.com/usgsentry.aspx?T=4&S=8&Z=13&X=9606&Y=88884&W=2.