Quiz: What Do You Know About the Keck Observatory?
Quiz: What Do You Know About the Keck Observatory?
See what you know about this astronomical marvel by taking this ASME quiz.
Space-based astronomy gets a lot of headlines—the Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch later this month—but telescopes on the Earth’s surface are amazing engineering wonders themselves. One of the biggest and most innovative is the W.M. Keck Observatory, which was opened in the 1990s. See what you know about this astronomical marvel by taking this ASME quiz.
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