Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik in German Nuremberg has successfully finished tests of the tractor which is intended for the rise on a high-mountainous plateau in Chile large-tonnage aerials of radio-telescope ALMA.
ALMA is abbreviation from English Atacama Large Millimeter Array.
Till now there was not so powerful observatory in a southern hemisphere. Scientists assume, that the new powerful telescope will allow to observe formation of planets in an orbit of new stars and the first galaxies after the Big Explosion.
Experts explain the choice of so remote place, besides geography and height, by that that Atacama Desert is unique arid, and therefore there will be no strays at the work of a radio-telescope.
It is informed, that the telescope will consist of 66 high-sensitivity aerials set on plateau Chakhnantor at a height of 16 404 ft. in Atacama Desert in Chile. They will be connected to a powerful computer and can function as one telescope of the huge size and with an unprecedented big resolution.
Project ALMA is realized conjointly by scientists from Europe, Northern America and Japan. By estimation of the experts, the radio-telescope should be constructed by 2012 and will cost 900 million dollars.

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