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PHOTO CAPTION                                   JPL9015AC

A view of the structure housing the electronics on the 70-meter 
antenna.  An engineer working on top of the ladder, provides a 
scale for size.

The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, located in the 
Mojave Desert in California, is one of three complexes which 
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.

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