Jansky Very Large Array
LocationUSA (NM)
Year1980
Size27 dishes (25 m)
OperatorNRAO
About Jansky Very Large Array
27 dishes arranged in a Y pattern up to 36 km across. Featured in the film Contact with Jodie Foster. Can be reconfigured into four different arrangements. Discovered ice on Mercury and the first cosmic jet. Each dish weighs 230 tonnes.