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  • 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
  • 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
  • Rays of the setting sun appear to emanate from Rubin Observatory atop its desert mountain summit. The clear sky takes up 75% of the image, and light rays from the setting sun radiate from the center horizon like spokes on a wheel. The boot-shaped observatory, with long white service building pointing left and angular silver dome sticking up, sits atop a shadowed summit on the right. Lower altitude mountain ridges recede into the distance.
    Sunset at Cerro Pachón in February 2024
  • Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
  • Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
  • Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
  • Rubin Observatory staff remove the M1M3 cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
  • Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
  • Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
  • Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
  • View from Vertical Platform Lift
  • Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
  • View from Vertical Platform Lift
  • Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
  • Rubin Observatory staff remove the M1M3 cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
  • Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
  • AMCR Group Photo
  • Rubin Observatory's Telescope Mount Assembly, November 2023
  • TMA November 2023
  • 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
  • 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
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