Mills Cross Array

The Mills Cross Array, or the 96-acre antenna array, was a Mills Cross Telescope-style radio telescope located in Washington, D.C. in 1955. It was used by Bernard F. Burke and Kenneth Franklin to discover radio emission from Jupiter.[1]It consisted of two legs, each of which had 66 pairs of unpainted wooden poles connected with wires. The telescope had around 5 miles (8.0 km) of wire, with an army surplus truck housing the radio receiver.[2]

Mills Cross Array
Location(s)Washington, District of Columbia
Telescope styleradio telescope 

References
  1. "How One Night in a Field Changed Astronomy".
  2. "The Discovery of Jupiter's Radio Emissions". radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov.


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