11th of April 2016 |
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Dust storm near ASKAP |
by Maxim Voronkov (CASS) |
Mother Nature surprised us last Saturday with
a strong thunderstorm and a dust storm in the evening. According to our weather
station, the wind peaked at 70 km/h and the temperature dropped almost 8
degrees in a couple of seconds. We lost the wind direction information soon
after the wind peaked; perhaps the vane has been blown away. The photo above shows the central core of the Australian Squre Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) after the dust storm. Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs) are now on 12 antennas and the team is hard at work getting the array working. - More photos in Maxim's Live Journal. |