The Very Large Array (VLA) consists of twenty-seven, 230-ton, 25-meter diameter dish antennas that comprise a single radio telescope system used to study objects from the Solar System to the edges of the known Universe. The VLA is located on the Plains of San Augustin, 50 miles west of Socorro, New Mexico, on Route #60.
A pool fed by rainwater in July to September. The El Morro pool is 12 feet deep and holds 200k gallons. After the Ancestral Pueblos moved on, Spaniards stopped here for water as early 1583 and continued for another 200 years. Centuries later the US Army used the pool while surveying the area for a new route west, beginning the next wave of visitors as part of America's westward expansion.
