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The National Science Foundation has released stunning footage of the 900-ton platform of the Arecibo Observatory falling into the 305-meter-wide dish below. A drone was doing a close investigation of the cables holding the platform over the dish as they snapped.
Videos released Thursday by NSF show both drone footage and the view from a camera in the visitor center showing the platform falling into the pot just above the jungle floor in Puerto Rico. Two massive blocks of the concrete towers to which the cables were attached can also be seen falling.
Two of the cables had previously broken, one in August and another in November, destabilizing the antenna.
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