Very Long Baseline Array Antenna, Washington

This is one of a network of antennas in the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). The VLBA is a radio astronomy observatory antenna, composed of ten 82-foot collectors spread out across the USA from the Virgin Islands to Hawaii, working together to form a radio antenna 5,000 miles in diameter. Information from this configuration is collected from each site and sent to the Array Operations Center at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, in Socorro, New Mexico.