Magdalena Vacations, Magdalena Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

Since I left my canyon I needed to find something else to do rather than sit in a motel until I head home.  My parents told me about some places to see in Albuquerque but I'm not really a city person.  I don't like dealing with lots of people and traffic and parking and so on.  I would rather do something outside, and (yikes) maybe even educational.  Another site I could see near Socorro was the the Trinity Site where they tested the first atomic bomb.  That could be ...

As part of the Synthesis Imaging Workshop at New Mexico Tech, we were given the option of taking a tour of the VLA.  You may be familiar with the VLA from the movie 'Contact', as the site where Jodi Foster's character is 'listening' to the radio waves being detected by the interferometer.  In reality, no astronomer would ever listen to this data, it does not make sense to do so...but in any case, the VLA is the site featured in the film, and also the site of much valuable radio astr...