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PIA17793: Dawn in the Apollo Valley
 Target Name:  Earth
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
 Instrument:  Goldstone Solar System Radar
 Product Size:  5184 x 3456 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA17793.tif (53.78 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA17793.jpg (1.362 MB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Beam Wave Guide antennas at Goldstone, known as the "Beam Waveguide Cluster." Each antenna is 111.5-feet (34-m) in diameter. They are located in an area at Goldstone called "Apollo Valley." This photograph was taken on Jan. 11, 2012.

The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, located in the Mojave Desert in California, is one of three complexes that comprise NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). The DSN provides radio communications for all of NASA's interplanetary spacecraft and is also utilized for radio astronomy and radar observations of the solar system and the universe.

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Deep Space Network for NASA. More information about the Deep Space Network is online at: http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/.

More information about NASA's Space Communications and Navigation program is at: www.spacecomm.nasa.gov.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2013-12-18