Space Tools

What is a spectrometer?
How do we get information from spacecraft?
When was the first radio telescope built?
Where is the largest radio telescope?
Where is the largest optical telescope in the world?
When did the first robot rover go to Mars?

What is a space probe?
How far can the Hubble Space Telescope see?
Why do we put telescopes in space?
How fast does the Space Station travel?
What is the International Space Station?

Where is the largest radio telescope?

The largest single dish radio telescope in the world is the Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico. It was built into a large limestone sinkhole and is about 1,000 feet (305 meters) across, 167 feet deep, and covers an area of about twenty acres.