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Watch the Drone Footage of the Arecibo Observatory Collapse – Interesting Engineering
The Arecibo telescope’s 900-ton platform collapsed overnight as engineers had feared. Get the details here.
UPDATE Friday 4 Dec: Drone footage of the Arecibo Observatory collapse has officially been shared online by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Two videos from different angles put the collapse in complete display.
Cables break off seemingly out of nowhere, the giant telescope swings and sways in slow motion before rapidly gathering speed and disappearing beneath the foliage in the first video. Splinters fly into the air, and debris clouds billow up from below. It’s a dismaying image.
The second…
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