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  • The LSST "first stone," i.e. a large boulder with a plaque from the initial site blast at the start of Rubin Observatory construction
    Rubin Observatory First Stone
  • Rubin Observatory on its desert summit site, with a vast expanse of desert mountains receding into the background beneath a blue sky. Rubin is a boot-like shape on the left, with a long white service building extending toward us and to the left and angular silver dome rising on the right. The smaller dome of the 1.2-meter Auxiliary Telescope is visible to the right on a lower flattened area, with a dirt road snaking to it from the main observatory.
    Drone view of Rubin Observatory
  • Rubin Observatory on its desert summit site, with a vast expanse of desert mountains receding into the background beneath a blue sky. Rubin is a boot-like shape in the center, with a long white service building extending to the right and angular silver dome rising on the left.
    Rubin Observatory
  • A small telescope dome sits atop a flat area on a desert mountain summit, with a yellow crane with arm lowered to the right. A red and white communications tower blocks part of the telescope building, and an even smaller dome that hosts Rubin's all-sky camera sits on its own white steel tower to the left. Towering desert peaks rise in the background beneath a mostly cloudy sky.
    Rubin Observatory Summit Site
  • View looking into the Rubin Observatory control room. The back wall is filled with large TV screens with multiple windows of technical information. A lone chair with a black jacket draped over the back sits at a curved desk with yet more computer monitors
    Rubin Observatory Control Room
  • Two women in orange construction safety vests and white hard hats converse in front of a railing separating them from a yellow crane structure in the background
    Sitio de la cumbre del Observatorio Rubin
  • Two people equipped with high elevation safety harnesses ready to work on the observatory dome. The people are facing the teal steel wall and away from us, and are wearing orange safety vests and white hard hats.
    Rubin Observatory Summit Site
  • A group of people stand in the telescope's dome area, which is a construction site. Everyone is wearing orange vest and hard hats, busy with their respective tasks.
    Rubin Observatory Summit Site
  • Looking down from the top of the telescope mount, into the center and at the primary mirror stand-in mass made of steel. Various metal beams and bars criss-cross the view.
    Rubin Observatory Summit Site
  • Rubin Observatory Summit Site
  • A person in a red and black jacket with orange hard hat looks at something out of view to the right. A large piece of unidentifiable white machinery is in the background, with a blue circle and white text reading "26 Mts" printed on it.
    Rubin Observatory Summit Site
  • A group of four people in orange construction safety clothing and hard hats stand inside Rubin Observatory's dome area against a background of teal steel beams.
    Rubin Observatory Summit Site
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