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Telescope in West Virginia could “see” your cell phone in airplane mode and as far as Mars

12/6/2023

POCAHONTAS COUNTY, W.Va. (WTRF) – West Virginia has a scientific secret.
Tucked away in the Allegheny Mountain Range in Pocahontas County is the Green Bank Observatory (GBO), an historic site that the American Physical Society has designated as “as the location of some of the most fundamental discoveries in astrophysics and astronomy.”

The Green Bank Observatory is home of the Green Bank Telescope, the world’s largest, fully steerable radio telescope. Scientists and researchers from NASA and across the world use the telescope.

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