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  • The car-sized, black and teal commissioning camera sits on a yellow transport cart on Rubin Observatory's heavy lift elevator platform. The concrete walls of the elevator shaft surround the platform and extend up out of view.
    Rubin Commissioning Camera reinstalled, August 2024
  • Face on view of Rubin's reflective donut-shaped secondary mirror, surrounding by a black light blocking baffle
    Rubin's secondary mirror uncovered for the first time after installation
  • Face on view of Rubin's reflective donut-shaped secondary mirror, surrounding by a black light blocking baffle. Seven Rubin staff members pose beneath wearing safety gear.
    Rubin's secondary mirror uncovered for the first time after installation
  • Seven members of the Rubin Observatory team pose for a group photo beneath the newly revealed reflective secondary mirror. The secondary mirror itself is surrounded by a black light blocking baffle ring. Beyond the light baffle, the far wall of the observatory dome interior is visible as a white wall with many criss crossing teal beams.
    Rubin's secondary mirror uncovered for the first time after installation
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two hauling trucks pull a trailer that holds Rubin's 8.4-meter primary mirror inside its white hexagonal box.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • A large hauling trucks pulls a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror. Off to the right, the large silver donut shape of the steel stand-in mass for the mirror now lies outside on the gravel .
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • The white hexagonal box that holds Rubin's 8.4-meter primary mirror sits on top of a flat bed trailer and is about to be hauled out of its large storage shed by a hauling truck. A person in a yellow construction vest and hard hat supervises at the left.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
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