Correct Answer - Option 2 : D
The correct answer is Australia.
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Parks Observatory located in Australia.
- The Parkes Observatory is a radio telescope observatory, located 20 kilometers north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia.
- It was one of several radio antennae used to receive live television images of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
- The Parks observatory was included on the Australian National Heritage List on 10 August 2020.
- Hence, option 2 is correct.
- The Parkes radio telescope is a gigantic measuring instrument.
- It used to examine a wide range of radio energies from our galaxy and other parts of the universe.
- Objects such as pulsars, galaxies, and quasars broadcast enormous quantities of radio energy into space.
- The Parkes radio telescope.
- One or more antennas to collect the incoming radio waves.
- Most antennas are parabolic dishes that reflect the radio waves to a receiver, in the same way as a curved mirror can focus visible light to a point.
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In 1962 it tracked the first interplanetary space mission, Mariner 2, as it flew by the planet, Venus.
