The biggest dish in the south! 📡

Continuing to process my images from @canberradsn visit a short while ago ... and came across this beauty of DSS 43.

It really shows the scale of the structure relative to the car, tree and buildings in the foreground.

DSS 43 has a diameter of 70m, which is bigger than Parkes (64m). This makes it the largest, steerable dish antenna in the southern hemisphere.

Unlike Parkes, DSS 43 both receives data AND transmits - so it is used in deep space missions, including humanity's longest distant calls - out to Voyager 2, which are now beyond the orbit of Pluto.

I love spending time with these gentle giants ....

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