Dustin Powers

Review of The Arecibo Observatory

Worth the trek into the hills!

Worth the trek into the hills!

We parked and hiked up the stairs to the dish, after declining to ride in the suv they were using to shuttle people up the steep hill. From the parking lot (the sun) was a scale model of the solar system along the steps. Pretty neat feature. Right after paying you walk through a neat little hands on physics, space, type learning center. Mostly kid oriented, but I had fun with some of the contraptions as well. There was an auditorium, but we skipped it since we had the baby with us. You then walk out to a guy making hot dogs, and a giant crater in the mountains filled with concrete panels that make up the reflector of a massive radio telescope.

This device is how we know definitively the Earth is flat.