Site Testing at Dome A (IMAGE)

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Site Testing at Dome A

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Equipment deployed at Dome A in Antartica, a site as high as Maunakea and 10 times drier, showed that it would be an ideal location for astronomy at terahertz radio frequencies.

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Xue-Fei Gong/Purple Mountain Observatory

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