Video short films "The View From Mars, Part 1 & 2" by Jonathan de Villiers (An Expressive Look at ALMA Atacama Large Millimeter Array) + ALMA Photo Diary + "Malin Space Science Systems' Exploration Through Imaging, Cameras for Space Missions"

Watch "The View From Mars: Part One" (4:26 minutes) by Jonathan de Villiers
Astronomers will soon be able to look billions of years into the past, gazing at the formation of distant stars and galaxies. “In doing so, de Villiers reveals, "they’ll build a clearer picture of how our sun and our galaxy formed.”  Celebrating the launch of a Galactic Telescope in Chile, the film takes an expressive look at ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array), a vast international telescope project that was inaugurated in Chile this March 2013, after decades in the making. YouTube link

Watch "The View From Mars: Part 2" (4 minutes) by Jonathan de Villiers
Documenting the astronomical breakthroughs of the Atacama Desert, he takes us 500 kilometers southeast of the ALMA project to the Very Large Telescopes (VLTs) of Paranal. Operated by the European Southern Observatory and using visible light as well as infra-red technology, this site has been in operation for over a decade but remains the most productive research factory on Earth, with an average of one scientific paper being published based on information acquired there every day. Among the countless recent and landmark advances to have been made on the premises is the remarkable documentation of an ‘exoplanet’—the first incredible images we have of a planet outside our own solar system. 

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"Whirling Southern Star Trails over ALMA"

 by Babak A. Tafreshi
(twanight.org)

The antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) sit under the stars of the southern sky as they appear to whirl overhead. Babak Tafreshi took the long-exposure photograph on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes. When ALMA construction is completed in 2013, the telescope will possess 54 of these 12-meter diameter antennas, and twelve 7-meter antennas.
Image released Dec. 31, 2012. by Space.com