Gran Telescopio
is really Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano, Atzitzintla, Puebla
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
A giant radio telescope on the northern rim of the Gran Caldera volcano.
The real place
A 50 m radio telescope on the summit of Sierra Negra, an extinct volcano beside Pico de Orizaba, run by Mexico's INAOE and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Visiting
It is a working research site and is not routinely open to the public. You can see it from the slopes around Pico de Orizaba National Park.
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