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Jicamarca Radio Observatory, a scientific facility for studying the equatorial ionosphere located in Lima, Peru, recently received over $12 million in grants to help expand. Dating back to the 1960s, the facility is run by the Geophysics Institute of Peru and aided by Cornell and the U.S. National Science Foundation.
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00:07 | Lima, Jan. 14. The world’s largest radar to detect physical phenomena is located in Peru, highlighted the Ministry of Environment (Minam), adding that the device uses an antenna that is about the size of 10 times a soccer field and can measure atmospheric layers at an altitude of up to 1,000 km.
This impressive device with 90,000 square meters of extension is part of the Jicamarca Radio Observatory of the Geophysical Institute of Peru (IGP) located in Lima s Lurigancho-Chosica district, between the provinces of Lima and of Huarochiri, in Lima region.
IGP emphasized that this powerful instrument can study phenomena in the ionosphere and other atmospheric layers from the lowest part of the atmosphere up to an altitude of over 1,000 km.